Here are the fruits of his labor.
Artist and professor at Syracuse University, Sam Van Aken, uses "chip grafting" to create a tree that grows 40 different kinds of stone fruits.
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The idea came from Van Aken's early fascination with grafting. "When I had seen it done as a child, it was Dr. Seuss and Frankenstein," Van Aken told National Geographic.
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He traveled around New York to find different varieties of stone fruit for the tree over the past several years.
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Each fruit blossoms on the tree at different times. He told National Geographic, "For each of the trees I keep a map, or essentially, a diagram of the tree."
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