Contemporary artist Sam Van Aken is bringing the “Tree of 40 Fruit” to Temple University’s main campus in Philadelphia. This ...

As Popular Science reports, Sam Van Aken recently brought his art project, Tree of 40 Fruits, to Temple University’s main ...

Artist Sam Van Aken grew up on his family’s farm in Douglassville, Pa. As a result, his favored medium to create art is a process called tree grafting. It involves taking a scion, or a desired piece ...

Trees of 40 Fruits are made through grafting. Van Aken makes a one-inch, diagonal cut to a tree's base and also to a different plant. He then attaches them, allowing them to grow into one another.

It will hold only so many trees, though I’ve been trying for years to squeeze in more. The solution might be a micro orchard, which provides distinct benefits. First, all the fruit on your trees ...

The pong pong tree—also known as the “suicide tree”—may be a plot point in the season finale of the HBO series. But the plant was known to cause thousands of deaths a year in the past.

If you’ve recently purchased a fruit or nut tree — or if you already have ... You might see a faint scar where two slightly different shades or textures of bark meet. That scar is an artifact ...