[Sam Van Aken] is working on a long-term project which literally will bear fruit. Forty different kinds, in fact. The Tree of 40 Fruit is a single tree, carefully grafted to produce 40 ...

Syracuse University professor Sam ... 40 varieties remain within a single tree. "They all maintain their own genetic variety," Van Aken said. "You can see all the different types of flowers and ...

Sam Van Aken used the method of "chip grafting ... Van Aken told the National Geographic of his creation named 'Tree of 40 Fruit'. "When I'd seen it done as a child it was Dr Suess and ...

Professor and sculptor Sam Van Aken has even grafted a tree with 40 different kinds of stone fruit that blooms on the ...