Paul Barnett, the man who grew 250 varieties of apples on a single tree. It happens in the UK and it looks like a miracle. Englishman Paul Barnett managed to grow 250 different varieties of apples on one tree. The horticulturist spent 24 years of his life trying to graft different types of apples on a single plant.
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It happens in the UK and looks like a miracle. English Paul Barnett He managed to grow 250 different varieties of apples on one tree. The horticulturist spent 24 years of his life trying to graft different types of apples on a single plant.
The apple tree was called Family Tree, a name that recalls the family tree. On his branches grow all the types of apples that probably each of us would be able to list, and many other less known varieties. Give her Granny Smith Golden Delicious, from Wolf River to Ross Nonpareil.
Barnett vive a Chidham, a town south-east of London. He has been growing at least 90 different types of apple trees for some time and at one point he found inspiration to pursue his passion in a smaller space. In fact, his land did not allow the cultivation of further fruit trees, precisely for reasons of space.
The horticulturist had planted the Family Tree in 1989. Over the years the apple tree has grown and now produces at least 250 different types of apples. Each fruit has a label indicating its variety. There ripening of apples it is a real spectacle, which allows you to admire fruits of never the same colors, shapes and sizes.
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Barnett adds every year new apple varieties, intervening above all through thegraft. To obtain new types of fruit, he turns to other fruit growers, or to the National Fruit Collection, one of the largest collections of trees and plants in the world, which is based in Kent, in England. The territory of origin of the most loved fruit is located between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea. The spread of apples elsewhere took place thanks to Greeks and Remains. At the moment in the world they are cultivated at least 7500 different varieties of apples.
Marta Albè
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