January 22, 2018

AOW #18- "The Tree of 40 Fruits" By Claire Heginbotham

January 22, 2018

This Week's Focus: 

Rhetorical Thesis

Article Category: 

Nature

Link: The Tree of 40 Fruits   (January 22, 2018)

There are a confirmed 16 trees in the world that produce 40 types of fruit each year. Claire Heginbotham, who is is a writer from Knowledgenuts.com, informs us about a tree that contains 40 different fruits. They go on to say that Pennsylvanian artist Sam Van Aken created a tree that bears 40 types of stone-pit fruit by grafting branches from other varietals on to a host tree. The project first started when Aken became curious about the ‘transubstantiation’ process. Over 5 years, he created a tree that bore 40 stone fruits over the Spring months. Artist Sam Van Aken’s early experimentation with grafting began with vegetables. He was inspired by the concept of transubstantiation. It is a process of transformation, used by Catholic priests when they turn bread into the body of Christ. Aken leased an old orchard labeled for destruction to save the rare, heirloom varietals of stone fruit that it bore. It was these obscure and rare fruits that he grafted together to create the Tree of 40 Fruit. Claire's purpose for writing this article was to inform and educate people about the nature of the tree of 40 different fruits.