One Piece Episode 602

[DarthEnderX]

The fruit was definitely the most interesting part.

My suspicion is this. Smiley was a Devil's Fruit eater, which explains why his weakness is water like Ceasar said and also explains...well...his form.

And I think maybe we just saw what happens to a Devil's Fruit when a user dies. Another nearby fruit turns into that fruit.

This explains why the apples were there(because Ceasar would want to get the fruit back so he can do this all over again), and it also explains how Blackbeard took Whitebeards Devil's Fruit power(though not how he is able to eat two fruits without dying).

Also explains why Devil's Fruits all look like normal fruit except for the texture, if they all started OUT as normal fruit.