A new type of apple has been discovered by a jogger.

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Apples

Archie Thomas, from Wiltshire, came across a windfall apple as he was jogging near his home earlier this month and experts have proven it to be a new variety.

Thomas told the BBC: "While I am certainly no fruit expert, it immediately struck me as highly unusual, unlike any apple I'd seen before.

"Excited by the pale and mottled oddity, I set about trying to get it identified with a view to perhaps one day being able to name it.

"That was the dream, but I did half suspect it would turn out to be something much less exciting than it is."

Thomas is now hoping to propagate and name the new type of apple, which "tastes quite good" according to horticultural experts.