Is this some kind of mythical, magical tree? Nah. All you need to understand this amazing 40-fruit tree is science!
Sam Van Aken, an artist from New York, created what he calls the Tree of 40 Fruit not through anything nasty like genetic engineering, but an age-old orcharding practice of grafting. Grafting is a horticultural technique in which a section of stem from one tree is inserted into another. So basically you can have an apple tree, but if you want another kind of apple to grow on it, you simply need to graft branches from that kind of apple tree onto the original tree.
Pretty neat, huh?...
