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This Crazy Tree Grows 40 Kinds of Fruit
July 20, 2015 - 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.
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Really cool! If I understood correctly, the tree will continue to grow and still have all those varieties in it? That's fascinating.
Now all he needs to do is somehow manage to graft some grapes in :D.