Plum invader! How did a cocoon of leaved get INSIDE this plum?

Question

We have just cut into a plum and found a cocoon of leaves (fresh green leaves). Initially we thought the stone must have sprouted but it would seem to me a bug in the middle of the bundle of leaves.

How did this happen - leaves inside the fruit?? Fresh leaves too, right up against the stone in the middle.

Thank you

Rachel

Answer 1

I have never heard of this at all and if you can't find any entry point it is unlikely to be an insect.

There is one possibiltiy if it is not an insect ------- when the fruit was forming, a cluster of leaves was up against the embryonic plum and the fleshy fruit has grown around the leaves trapping them inside.

Being an isolated incident it points to something out of the ordinary.