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

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.

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 ...

Read the incredible story of Kaleem Ullah Khan, the ‘Mango Man of India,’ who grafted over 300 mango varieties onto a single tree in Malihabad, Uttar Pradesh.