The man who set a Guinness record for creating a tree with 10 types of fruit

It is a very special tree created by a gardener in Victoria, Australia with 10 different types of fruit and is recorded as the tree with the most fruit in the world. This man's name is Husam Saraf - an immigrant from Iraq.

The 10 fruits of this tree include: white nectarines, yellow nectarines, snow plums, yellow plums, apricot peaches, almonds, yellow peaches, white peaches, apricots and cherries.

The tree set a world record for 10 different types of fruit

The creation of the tree, Saraf said, required an innovative process of hybridization, combining the plant tissues of different trees, persistently carried out for nearly three years until the tree could produce 10 types of fruit depending on the conditions. seasons.

It started out as a nectarine grown from seed and then it was developed by adding branches from other trees. He said that his tree was created with the idea of ​​peaceful coexistence, the fruits and leaves with different colors represent harmony and respect between different cultures. 'I consider this tree to be the tree of a multicultural community, all in one. Each branch on the tree is a unique tree, I will also bring it to my neighbors, invite friends and relatives to taste, they love them."

The previous record holder for the tree with the most fruit belonged to Luis H Carrasco from Chile with a tree with 5 fruits and when Saraf applied for his product, he received a response that it was indeed his tree. you only have 5 unique types. But Saraf protested that Carrasco's tree actually had only four different types of fruit, and then Guinness World Records looked at it and decided Saraf was right.

'I told them that Carrasco had nectarines and peaches, which they counted as two, but in my case one,' in the end Saraf's tree was counted as having 5 fruit families - plums, apricots, almonds, peaches and cherries and are 10 different varieties.

Saraf by her special tree.

Saraf says that throughout his childhood, gardening was a regular job he did in high school, where students were taught how to match fruits. During his school days, he would spend three months on his grandparents' farm, where the aromatic varieties of dates, figs, citrus and pomegranates nurtured his passion for gardening.