Results: The Tree of 40 Fruit

Sixteen trees especially cultivated by an artist in the US will soon be heaving with forty different types of fruit as they enter their harvest season. To create the plants, New York-based artist Sam van Aken painstakingly collected heirloom stone fruits — which are not commercially available — and fused them onto a single tree using a technique called grafting. Peaches, plums, apricots, nectarines, cherries and almonds begin ripening on the Tree of 40 Fruit in July. Are you familiar with the "Tree of 40?"

Van Aken gathered the young shoots from different fruit trees and stored them until spring. He then replaced buds on an existing tree with shoots he had collected. By noting down when each fruit blossomed, he was able to "sculpt" the tree. Would you feel comfortable eating the fruit from one of these trees?