Sports may differ by foliage shape or color, flowers, fruit, or branch structure.
[4] If the clonal descendants of a modified cell eventually form a meristem that gives rise to new plant parts, those may be of a new phenotype.
Often only part of the meristem cells are affected, resulting in genetic chimerism in such sports.
[5] Such selections are often prone to "reversion", meaning that part or all of the plant reverts to its original form.
[6] Other common fruits resulting from a sport mutation are the red Anjou pear, the Ruby Red grapefruit, and the variegated pink lemon, which is a sport of the "Eureka" lemon.