This Crazy Tree Grows 40 Kinds of Fruit | National Geographic

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This Crazy Tree Grows 40 Kinds of Fruit | National Geographic


Sam Van Aken, an artist and professor at Syracuse University, uses “chip grafting” to create trees that each bear 40 different varieties of stone fruits, or fruits with pits. The grafting process involves slicing a bit of a branch with a bud from a tree of one of the varieties and inserting it into a slit in a branch on the “working tree,” then…

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31 Comments

  1. Incredible. 8yrs ago this was posted, what is it today and why arent there more multi fruit bearing trees? Seems abit trendy but still pretty awsome.

  2. I remember seeing a picture of it long ago. This or an other with many different flowers of fruits. I was thinking it was a Photoshop.
    I am happy that it is real 😍

  3. This grafting that my grandfather did was done over 70 years ago when I was a kid. All his grandchildren inherited a green thumb from my grandfather – God Bless his Soul

  4. You remind me of my grandfather – he enjoying grafting and experiencing with variety of exocit fruits and flowers. Most beautiful garden in my country. Tourists will come from Australia and England to see and take photos of my grandfather's garden.
    Most beautiful in my country.