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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 wrapping the wound with tape until it heals and the bud starts to grow into a new branch. Over several years he adds slices of branches from other varieties to the working tree. In the spring the “Tree of 40 Fruit” has blossoms in many hues of pink and purple, and in the summer it begins to bear the fruits in sequence—Van Aken says it’s both a work of art and a time line of the varieties’ blossoming and fruiting. He’s created more than a dozen of the trees that have been planted at sites such as museums around the U.S., which he sees as a way to spread diversity on a small scale.
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44 Comments

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  15. Christopher Morales

    This tree is like an average American in 2050, a lot everything and absolutely nothing.
    Just like when you mix all colors of clay, you get a gray mix instead of individual unique colors. (Not saying it’s a bad thing, just that it’s inevitable with mass immigration)

  18. Merry Stellar

    The Creator of this 40 Fruits in 1 Tree, is SO AMAZING! I hope he could also teach me how to grow trees with multiple fruits! God bless him more!

  20. Bill Beamer

    Have you seen any generic of variety?….I can't remember if it's 3200 or 32000… whatever….2011….how many total..like cool dude….you are a Rock 🌟

  21. YANG Family in LA 洛城杨家小院

    Really amazing. This year so far I have created a new citrus tree by using different grafting techniques to graft 8 different varieties of lemon, orange and mandarin on one citrus stock. They all survived and thrive. Hopefully next year they are going to bloom and bear different fruits.

  23. mary

    I was thinking of grafting mango with avocado so i search for it and this video come up so glad its given me boost to try . Thank you♥️💞

  26. Joseph Miller

    Something like this on a small scale is a goal of mine as of now. I just need to keep working to get a house and yard.

  27. Madden Hyme

    so where is the output? This is the first NG video that had wasted my time. I thought NG was always reliable. You guys didn't show the tree having different fruits. That's what I expected.

  32. Smooth Smoker

    This guy has a voice of a 19 year old college kid. Not a bad thing he just sounds way younger than he is!

  36. quarter atom

    Wanna show the whole tree or different parts of the tree in context instead of just macroshots of a few leaves?

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