Today, we're going to Silicon Valley, the home of pretty much every tech company you

can imagine.

There's Apple, Facebook, Google, but it wasn't always like this.

In the early 20th century, this place was known as the Valley of the Hearts Delight, the

largest fruit-producing area on the planet.

My dad used to tell me about the cherry and apricot orchards that surrounded the house

where he grew up.

His own father, my grandfather, worked at a fruit cannery for his entire adult life.

And in the spring time, the valley was filled with flowering trees, covered in blossoms

of every imaginable shade of red and white.

That's all mostly gone now.

Suburban neighborhoods and office parks came for the orchards first, and these days the

valley is more about hard drives than fruit harvests.

But recently, an artist created a work of art, a living work of art that pays tribute

to the history of the Valley of the Hearts Delight.

It's a single tree that bears 40 different varieties of fruit, one tree, 40 fruits.

I'm Annie Ubank, and this is Atlas Obscura, a celebration of the world's strange, incredible

and wondrous places.

Today, I visit the tree of 40 fruits in San Jose, California, right after this.

Hi, you must be Cecilia.

Hi, I'm Anne.

I'm much COVID times not sure she can.

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