Challenging UNDATED (CNN) -- The first time Sam Van Aken saw tree branches being grafted and grown onto other trees, he likened it to Frankenstein. Yet, when the process became a full-time fascination ...

Haley Mast is a freelance writer, fact-checker, and small organic farmer in the Columbia River Gorge. She enjoys gardening, reporting on environmental topics, and spending her time outside ...

Hybrid fruit trees are created by cross-pollinating two different types of fruit trees to produce a new variety that combines traits from each parent tree. This breeding process yields unique fruit ...

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An American professor has created a 'Tree of 40 Fruit' by grafting dozens of stone fruit varieties onto a single tree. This living sculpture, a blend of art and botany, showcases scientific tradition ...

Nov. 11 (UPI) --An Australia gardener earned a Guinness World Record when he successfully grafted five different types of fruit onto a single tree. Hussam Saraf of Shepparton, Victoria, said he ...

Grafting is a technique used to facilitate new plant growth. It involves attaching part of a plant or tree, called a scion, onto to another branch, called a rootstock. Grafting fruit trees has been in ...