Maybe you have never heard of the fruit salad tree or you simply cannot grasp the idea of fruit salad tree. The fruit salad tree propagation is usually carried out by the non sexual vegetative. A certain variety is grafter or budded to a suitable root stock. This process is actually rather similar to the process of creating moon cactus. However, in this context, when the sexual reproduction of the perennial plants begins, there would be the development of a fruit with seeds and each of these seeds will grow into a new specimen. The new tree will have the either or all the parents’ varieties. Or to simply summarize it, the fruit salad tree is a tree with more than one variety of fruit.
The method of growing a tree that can bear different fruits may sound a bit strange. And even today, it is not yet widely acceptable. People still prefer to choose the one fruit tree and optimize the fruits bear by this tree than having different fruit from one tree but with low quality. Maybe it is true that the salad fruit tree still needs perfecting so that they will have the best fruit qualities as well as the other good quality from each of the variety such as the resistance towards certain diseases.
Although many salad fruit tree has not bear the perfect results, but in fact this kind of trees have been developed for almost 3 decades. The Fruit Salad Tree was developed the first time in 1990. A West family who live in the northern part of New England is the one who was responsible to develop this variety. They managed to grow a tree that has the ability to bear six different fruits from the same family in one tree. They also succeeded in retaining each of the fruit’s individuality.
Now there are different types of fruit salad tree that can be found. They are the stone fruit, the citrus tree, multi apples and the multi nashis tree. The stone fruit is the tree that has the ability to bear peaches, plums, nectarines, as well as apricots. Each of the variety will ripe at different times so you may find one ripened early in the season, one in the middle of the season and another late in the season. The citrus combines limes, lemons, mandarins, grapefruits, pamelos, oranges and tangelos. The multi apples provide different varieties of apples with fruits of different color.
