Using an ancient grafting technique, Sam Van Aken’s Tree of 40 Fruit can bear dozens of stone fruit varieties

Add this to your truth-is-stranger-than-fiction file: an art professor in upstate New York is modifying plum trees so that each can bear not just one, but up to 40 varieties of stone fruit.

http://time.com/3086552/tree-of-40-fruit-sam-van-aken/