I sense a new challenge for roughy ;)
This tree is a little peculiar to look at. It’s because this isn’t an ordinary tree, one might argue that it’s actually closer to 40 trees all wrapped up into one. Indeed, when this tree is in full bloom (as shown in the picture), you can find about 40 different types of fruit on its branches, from peaches to plumbs, apricots to nectarines, treats like cherries and even nuts such as almonds. I could make a rather delicious fruit salad by stopping at this single tree.
How is this possible? Science.
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This tree only has “stone fruits,” or more appropriately known as drupe. A stone fruit is basically any fruit where the seed is contained inside a pit (like a peach). There are far more stone fruits than are available at the supermarket, this tree is helping to preserve some of that diversity.
Currently, Aken has created 16 of these trees. They exist is museums and private collections. One might ask, what happens to all of the fruit? Aken commented on that very question, “I’ve been told by people that have at their home that it provides the perfect amount and perfect variety of fruit. So rather than having one variety that produces more than you know what to do with, it provides good amounts of each of the 40 varieties. Since all of these fruit ripen at different times, from July through October, you also aren’t inundated.”