Nature’s revenge

This Japanese cherry tree (branches with rose colored flowers) is grafted onto an ordinary wild cherry tree, a technique that is kind of a predecessor of gentech.

But the base tree (providing roots for the graft), so the wild cherry tree, started to also make branches of its own ( with the white flowers) and the inhabitants of this house didn’t stop this growth, they didn’t cut the branches at the stem base. This wild growth is at the expense of the man-made cultivar.

Some years from now, the rooted tree will have dwarfed the artificial rose colored part.

Second photo: to the left: base of. ‘unwanted’ growth of wild cherry tree branches.

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