pears grow on tress,
but we have never heard of a tomato tree, until now, Yong
Huang from Shenyang, China, manager of
agricultural science at The Land pavilion at Epcot discovered the plants in
Beijing, China, and after meeting with scientists responsible for those plants
he brought the seeds to Epcot.
the plant’s single vine grows tens of thousands of golf
ball-sized tomatoes which are harvested and served at restaurants across Walt
Disney World Resort,
Huang’s first tomato tree at Epcot set a Guinness World
Record when it yielded a harvest of more than 32,000 tomatoes from one vine, the tomato trees can be seen by guests on the pavilion’s 'Living with the Land' boat ride, the trees apparently take
1.2 – 1.5 years to reach their impressive size, they yield no fruit during the
first 7 – 8 months, but once they reach maturity, you can expect a harvest of
over 14,000 tomatoes on average, the current Guinness World Record for the
largest harvest from a single plant was set by one of the two octopus trees
currently on exhibit at Epcot – a whopping 32,000 tomatoes with a total weight
of 522 kg, the square crown of the trees is spread on a large trellis and
reaches 40-50 square meters in size, tomato trees, who would have ever thought it?
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