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Updated: 2008-02-27 11:24

BEIJING  -- Recently a consumer surnamed Xing told Henan Business Daily that a big red pepper she had purchased was found to be carrying a baby red pepper inside.

A red big pepper is found to contain a baby pepper in this photo taken on Monday, February 25, 2008. [Henan Business Daily]

Xing, who is an obstetrician in Zhengzhou, the capital city of Henan Province, suspected that the red pepper became pregnant as a result of effects from hormones.

 Professor Zhao Huijie with Henan Agricultural University believes that two red pepper ovaries joined each other during their growth, causing one to envelop the other.