Remember Paul Barnett, the man who managed to grow a tree with 250 different apple varieties? This time we are faced with a new experiment
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Remember Paul Barnett, the man who managed to cultivate a tree with 250 different apple varieties? This time we are faced with a new experiment, all made thanks to numerous grafts and without genetic modifications. It is a tree on which they will be born 40 types of different fruits.
The objective of the Tree of 40 fruit project is artistic, but it also aims at the conservation of biodiversity. Second Sam Van Aken, even the most beautiful trees are unable to produce different fruits and flowers of different colors. But with a rather extravagant artistic impulse it is possible to lend a hand to nature to create a masterpiece that can strike the observer and change the classic perception of what surrounds us.
The tree will begin to bloom with the arrival of spring and will later produce its fruit as summer approaches, creating a rainbow of colors and scents. So from a single tree you can harvest cherries, peaches, plums, nectarines and apricots. This is certainly a very unusual experiment.
The aims of the project also concern the preservation of fruits that are in danger of being forgotten. In fact, the tree includes local fruits and varieties that are not available for sale. For the moment the project is still in the testing phase and the trees available are still small.
But from the photographs already available it is clear that they will soon bear flowers and fruit. At the moment in the United States they are found well 15 "trees with 40 fruits", distributed among museums, proven collections and aggregation centers. How he explained in an interview, the primary source of provenance of the chosen fruit is the New York State Agricultural Experiment Station.
The artist-farmer has collected numerous varieties of plums and apricots right here before the orchard that had been there until then was destroyed. So he thought of creating a large fruit tree in his own land thanks to grafting.
La fruit ripening it will happen in the way gradual from June to October, so as to have different quantities and qualities of seasonal fruit available throughout the summer and early autumn. It now remains to be understood if the unusual tree will become large, rich and beautiful as in the rendering that Sam Van Aken made and that you can admire in the photo above.
Marta Albè
Photo source: theverge.com
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