stackyFACTSOrchard farmers frequently chop the top off one tree and forcibly stick it onto the root system of a completely different variety. The plant tissues brutally fuse together, meaning you can harvest sweet lemons from a tree that technically possesses the rugged root genetics of a bitter orange.
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