The Amazing Tree Of 40 Fruits

An old New York state orchard was about to be left for dead in 2008, an orchard that grows varieties of stone fruit over 200 years old, when artist Sam Van Aiken stepped in and took over the lease, saving many fruit varieties no longer commercially available.

Sam now grows totally magical trees that he calls the Trees of 40 Fruit, applying artistic ideas and some serious grafting skills to create a tree that "grows over forty different types of stone fruit including peaches, plums, apricots, nectarines, cherries, and almonds."

His fascinating take on tree hybridization as living sculpture has produced multiple hybrid trees, and Sam even gave a TED talk about his project, so why are we seeing a photoshopped image of the Tree of 40 Fruits?

Because it could take them decades to grow to that size, so at the moment his magic trees look more like this:

-Via Sploid

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Good luck. I bought a "cocktail tree" a few years ago that had branches for: ruby red grapefruit, Persian lime, tangerine, navel orange, Honeybell tangelo, and Meyer lemon. Last year I had a dozen or so Meyer lemons, two limes, two oranges, three tangelos, two small sour grapefruit, no tangerines. This year I have quite a few Meyer lemons, no limes, 4 grapefruit that look normal so far, a couple tangelos, the orange branch died, and the tangerine branch looks like it is next. I guess those things don't work out like you wish they would.

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