Okay, I realize that this may have been posted on this forum before. After all this news article is from 2015 BUT I just love it! I mean just imagine having a tree like this in your own garden - 40 different kind of fruits to enjoy. Not too much and not too little of either to eat I imagine - PERFECT 
By Wyatt Massey, Special to CNN
Updated 11:01 AM EDT, Mon August 3, 2015
Sam Van Aken created the Tree of 40 Fruit by grafting buds from various stone fruit trees onto the branches of a single tree, making it capable of producing multiple types of fruit. This is an artist rendering of what a 10-year-old tree would look like in full bloom. Click through to find out more.
courtesy Sam Van Aken
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Sam Van Aken's "Tree of 40 Fruit" grows variety of stone fruits
Chip grafting of tree buds makes the project possible
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The first time Sam Van Aken saw tree branches being grafted and grown onto other trees, he likened it to Frankenstein. Yet, when the process became a full-time fascination, the Syracuse University art professor did not seek to create a monster but a piece of art.
The “Tree of 40 Fruit” is Van Aken’s creation, a single tree that can produce 40 different stone fruits, or fruit with pits, including peaches, apricots, plums, cherries and nectarines.
“I look at the Tree of 40 Fruit as an artwork, a research project and a form of conservation,” Van Aken said in a 2014 TEDxManhattan talk.
He uses chip grafting to create the trees, which involves cutting the buds off a fruit tree and having them heal to the lateral branches of a rootstock tree. Branches from the different fruit trees grow off of the rootstock, which is typically a tree variety natural to the area’s climate and soil. This allows fruit to be grown in areas that might not otherwise support that type of tree. Van Aken has planted 16 trees in seven states across the country.
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Art professor grows trees that can bear 40 types of fruit
By Wyatt Massey, Special to CNN
Updated 11:01 AM EDT, Mon August 3, 2015
Sam Van Aken created the Tree of 40 Fruit by grafting buds from various stone fruit trees onto the branches of a single tree, making it capable of producing multiple types of fruit. This is an artist rendering of what a 10-year-old tree would look like in full bloom. Click through to find out more.
courtesy Sam Van Aken
Tree of 40 Fruit
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Sam Van Aken's "Tree of 40 Fruit" grows variety of stone fruits
Chip grafting of tree buds makes the project possible
CNN —
The first time Sam Van Aken saw tree branches being grafted and grown onto other trees, he likened it to Frankenstein. Yet, when the process became a full-time fascination, the Syracuse University art professor did not seek to create a monster but a piece of art.
The “Tree of 40 Fruit” is Van Aken’s creation, a single tree that can produce 40 different stone fruits, or fruit with pits, including peaches, apricots, plums, cherries and nectarines.
“I look at the Tree of 40 Fruit as an artwork, a research project and a form of conservation,” Van Aken said in a 2014 TEDxManhattan talk.
He uses chip grafting to create the trees, which involves cutting the buds off a fruit tree and having them heal to the lateral branches of a rootstock tree. Branches from the different fruit trees grow off of the rootstock, which is typically a tree variety natural to the area’s climate and soil. This allows fruit to be grown in areas that might not otherwise support that type of tree. Van Aken has planted 16 trees in seven states across the country.
Growing 40 types of fruit on one tree - CNN
Artwork, research and conservation: Art professor Sam Van Aken creates hybridized trees that can grow more than 40 different types of fruit.
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