Fruit Salad Tree
Encyclopedia
A fruit salad tree is a fictional plant
that produces a variety of fruit
s on one tree. To create this tree, multiple cultivars of various fruits are grafted
to a single rootstock. Fruit salad trees can simultaneously grow a number of fruits from multiple fruit families.
Plant
Plants are living organisms belonging to the kingdom Plantae. Precise definitions of the kingdom vary, but as the term is used here, plants include familiar organisms such as trees, flowers, herbs, bushes, grasses, vines, ferns, mosses, and green algae. The group is also called green plants or...
that produces a variety of fruit
Fruit
In broad terms, a fruit is a structure of a plant that contains its seeds.The term has different meanings dependent on context. In non-technical usage, such as food preparation, fruit normally means the fleshy seed-associated structures of certain plants that are sweet and edible in the raw state,...
s on one tree. To create this tree, multiple cultivars of various fruits are grafted
Grafting
Grafting is a horticultural technique whereby tissues from one plant are inserted into those of another so that the two sets of vascular tissues may join together. This vascular joining is called inosculation...
to a single rootstock. Fruit salad trees can simultaneously grow a number of fruits from multiple fruit families.