Trees have their water and nutrients flowing through veins located in a layer of plant tissue called the cambium layer. The actual position of the cambium layer for a lot of trees is around the outer circumference of the trunk and branches, just underneath the bark. This location makes for some very interesting characteristics in [...]
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Fruit Cocktail Trees
Horticulturists have had a lot of fun creating fruit cocktail trees, which is a single tree that bears a variety of different fruit. The concept of creating a fruit cocktail tree is simple. It’s done through grafting limbs of different fruit trees all onto a single common stalk or tree that functions as the base [...]
Grafts vs. Seeds
Fruit trees sold by nurseries today are reproduced almost entirely by asexual means (grown from grafts of the parent tree). The reason for this is because fruit farmers want to reproduce the same characteristics of the type fruit they are growing on all their trees. In other words, a Jonagold apple from one tree needs [...]
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