Artwork, research and conservation: Art professor Sam Van Aken creates hybridized trees that can grow more than 40 different types of fruit.

The Tree of 40 Fruit project sees each tree take around five years to create, and has yielded 16 trees so far. They are planted in these locations around the United States. Sam Van Aken is an ...

An artist's rendering of the "Tree of 40 Fruit," grafted together by Sam Van Aken to bear 40 different kinds of fruit. Sam Van Aken Sam Van Aken, an artist and professor at Syracuse University ...

Each of the colors in the photo above represents a variety of flowering tree. Collectively, as one plant, they produce 40 different edible stone fruits (ones with pits, like peaches and plums).

It's not the product of magic, but years of careful grafting by artist Sam Van Aken. The Tree of 40 Fruit looks like any other tree. But in the spring, it blossoms with varieties of cherry, peach ...

The tree that bears 40 DIFFERENT fruit: Magical-looking plant produces varieties of peaches, plums, apricots and cherries. Project is the work of New York-based sculptor and artist Sam Van Aken ...

Artist Sam Van Aken brings his ‘Open Orchard’ to McColl Center. The artist’s work, the best known of which is Tree of 40 Fruit, is part art, part research, part conservation.

Artwork, research and conservation: Art professor Sam Van Aken creates hybridized trees that can grow more than 40 different types of fruit. CNN values your feedback 1.

An artist's rendering of the "Tree of 40 Fruit," grafted together by Sam Van Aken to bear 40 different kinds of fruit. Sam Van Aken Sam Van Aken, an artist and professor at Syracuse University ...

Artwork, research and conservation: Art professor Sam Van Aken creates hybridized trees that can grow more than 40 different types of fruit. CNN values your feedback 1.