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. ➡ Subscribe: http://bit.ly/NatGeoSubscribe About National Geographic: National Geographic is the world's premium destination for science, exploration, and adventure. Through their world-class scientists, photographers, journalists, and filmmakers, Nat Geo gets you closer to the stories that matter and past the edge of what's possible. Get More National Geographic: Official Site: http://bit.ly/NatGeoOfficialSite Facebook: http://bit.ly/FBNatGeo Twitter: http://bit.ly/NatGeoTwitter Instagram: http://bit.ly/NatGeoInsta This Crazy Tree Grows 40 Kinds of Fruit | National Geographic https://youtu.be/ik3l4U_17bI National Geographic https://www.youtube.com/natgeo
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This beautiful tree is representation of "US".... The global citizens of Mother Earth <3
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I successfully grafted a purple hibiscus onto a red tree so now it blooms both purple and red. This spring I will add yellow and orange.
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u talk too much
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I think this is great.I would like to see some of our native stone fruits like beach plums(very,very,delicious)and others grafted on to the 40 fruits in one tree.Beach plums are not available commercially for a variety of reasons but if they could be grafted on the right tree to make them easy to harvest and quick to bear fruit it would be a very worthwhile breakthrough."There is nothing more patriotic an American can do than to bring a new crop into cultivation" Thomas Jefferson. This is why I would like to see some of our tastey native fruits brought into cultivation,by grafting if neccesary.The more the better. Hats off to the professor and his work.Beautiful and useful too.
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This is one of the most beautiful artworks I have ever come accross to.
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That fruit all summer part would be my favorite part.
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This is the work of the DEVIL!
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do you have a tree for tropical countries
like in the Philippines?? -
how do you make this video with no or few pictures
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man if you plant that somewhere and the gardener prunes it , there goes all that work, or if someone snaps off a branch then goodbye 40 varieties.
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Just awsome
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this is amazing!
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White people.. this is nothing knew
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MY UNCLE HAS ONE IN THE BACKYARD. NOTHING SPECIAL.
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awesome every fruit family like stone fruits can grow all of the stone fruit family in one tree type using grafting.
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It is good
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I want to make one.
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Ok it might be an art work for you and you will get 40 different types of fruits too BUT what about the taste of the fruits.?????
you will never get the real taste of fruits by this process.
as they say don't miss with nature -
must be for christmas
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Amazing!!~~~ How creative and refreshing.^^ Thank you for the video.^^♡♡
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