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I read a, possibly mythical, story about a group that surreptitiously grafted various fruit branches onto the shade trees lining some streets in a major city. S

I read a, possibly mythical, story about a group that surreptitiously grafted various fruit branches onto the shade trees lining some streets in a major city. Several years later the mess on the sidewalk caused the city to cut them off.

malfist 3y ago
Grafting generally only works within families. I.e. you can't graft a chestnut onto an apple tree. I doubt many (if any) shade trees would support a fruit. That said, families can be surprisingly large. Most citrus all come from the same four parent plants and you can mix most of them. Apples and plums are also closely related
- pvaldes 3y ago
  My bet would be on japanese crabapple
- 13of40 3y ago
  Where I live there are a lot of non-fruiting cherry and plum trees planted for shade, so I can imagine people grafting on a fruit bearing branch here and there.
  - malfist 3y ago
    I didn't consider that, thank you for your perspective
vtbassmatt 3y ago
https://weburbanist.com/2015/10/22/guerrilla-grafting-public-trees-spliced-to-bear-edible-fruit/ https://weburbanist.com/2015/10/22/guerrilla-grafting-public... maybe?