#ghost apples

[littlepawz]

Ghost apples are created when freezing weather coats an apple in ice. Eventually, the apple inside rots and falls out and the icy shell is left behind. Voila, here is your ice apple.

[dyrewrites]

The Wrong Station managed something they've not managed before. They made me cry...

So, I share the episode what did it.

[marlynnofmany]

I am making a LIST of cool things that could be spell components. Ghost-glass apples definitely belong on this list.

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Screenshot of a tweet by Tyler Sebree, saying “After freezing rain in Michigan, apples that hadn’t been picked got coated in ice. Many fell off the tree. Some had their insides turn to mush as apples have lower freezing points. The mush and skin fell, leaving these ‘ghost apples.’”

This is quote-tweeted by Annie Bellet, who adds “you just know that this is a spell component.”

[garethschweitzer]

Ghost apples - freezing rain coats rotting apples before they fall, then when they turn mushy they eventually slip out leaving the icy shell

Credit: Andrew Sietsema

[paintedimagery]

Wanted to do an art piece with some ghost apples so here you go :D

[redrumrose]

“... maybe they’re poisoned?”

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I do a lot of mountain hiking, and sometimes you find eerie places like this off the trail.  Abandoned orchards with rotting fruit and old overgrown farm fields.  Random scattered bones hidden in the tall grass and trees.

(Also she doesn’t eat the white apples, in case your wondering xD)

[mattievictoria]

My last drawing of 2020 ✨I love “ghost apples”— apples that defrost before the ice that encases them does — and wanted to make a drawing inspired by them!

[the-insomniac-cat2]

As soon as I saw these I wondered if, centuries ago, they thought these were magic, from witchcraft! And I hope they were never seen in the garden of a very old, bent widow who occasionally drank herbal tea.