User blog comment:DancePowderer/Metaphysical Horticulture/@comment-4889755-20120802053730/@comment-1595565-20120802060040

It would only work if the Suna Suna no Mi's fruit were indeed an orange, and you would have to know what the fruit was beforehand. Take Kaku's fruit for example, a banana. If you successfully killed Kaku and had a banana with you, that banana would become the Ushi Ushi no Mi Model: Giraffe since the fruit he ate that gave him the power was a banana. So, assuming Crocodile's fruit was an orange, yes, you would absorb the power of that fruit into your orange. But if it were a different fruit, say a pear, your orange wouldn't get the power and the nearest pear would.