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Can apples, cherries, prunes, and pears be planted close to each other without one affecting the other?

These are fruit trees. Not the Prune. I think that is just dried plums. Which of course is also a tree. I don’t know if you are planting an orchard or just a few in your back yard. However, my child hood home had 2 kinds of plum, a pear and an apple tree in the same yard. They had been planted far enough apart, so that as they matured they would have room to branch out. I have been at other places where multiple fruit trees have been planted together. I think as long as they have room to grow, they won’t affect each other. Of course you can always ask at the Nursery or where ever you buy your trees their opinions.

Why don't we plant fruit-bearing trees around the countryside and let them spread naturally to create wild fruit forests that everyone can gather from?

Firstly in most countries there would be an issue with land ownership. The fruit on fruit trees belongs to the owners of the land. Let's dispose of that problem and suppose state or municipal land is available. Secondly fruit trees do not yield good crops unless they are carefully looked after. Who would be doing the pruning weeding and pest control for these trees? Thirdly, the types of fruit that most people are used to eating do not spread naturally, new trees are created by grafting fruit tree cuttings on to specially grown root stock. Where you do get natural spread, for example plum or cherry suckers, the trees produce very little fruit which tends to be very low quality. Finally what makes you think that people would go out and harvest the fruit if it was available? The canal banks around here are laden with wild blackberries at the moment, but they will mostly go unharvested in spite of a town of maybe 20,000 people. For myself I grow more than I can eat but for most people it is too much bother. It can be attempted in smaller communities where there is a significant hard core of determined people — look up incredible edible — but it is by no means straightforward.

What is the amount of space between two trees when planting?

What is the amount of space between two trees when planting? This depends on the type of tree and the purpose of the planting. For pines grown for timber or pulp wood production, the typical spacing in fertile ground is about 8 feet on centers in rows 8 feet apart. These are usually thinned after 15 years or so, removing every other tree for pulp wood, and giving the remaining trees more room to grow into saw logs.Pecan trees in an orchard are spaced between 50 and 60 feet apart so their canopies don’t crowd each other when they reach maturity. Landscape trees like live oak and various myrtle trees are planted a bit closer, 30 to 40 feet apart is common.Planting fruit trees like oranges and peach trees that don’t reach huge sizes can be done 15 to 20 feet apart in rows about 15 foot apart. Planting density for agricultural species is important to afford maximum production and to still allow harvesting and orchard maintenance equipment room to operate.In the wild, trees space themselves naturally so that they can get sufficient water from the soil and sunlight through the canopy, but where crowding occurs, the trees actually grow taller and straighter, yielding better lumber if they are harvested for this purpose. Extreme overcrowding results in unhealthy and stunted trees, so in some cases, naturally growing woodlots are actually selectively thinned to improve growing conditions for the remaining trees.

Does every green plant produce oxygen?

Most of the plants produce oxygen.Plants produce oxygen as a byproduct of photosynthesis, the process that plants and other organisms use to create usable energy. Photosynthesis consists of carbon dioxide and water reacting in the presence of energy from sunlight, which produces glucose and oxygen. Glucose is a simple sugar molecule that can be used by cells for energy.Plants get the required carbon dioxide from the air, and the water needed for photosynthesis through their roots.Green plants contain chlorophyll on their leaves, which allows them to absorb energy directly from the sunlight. While it is not immediately usable by the cells in the plant, it can be converted into glucose via photosynthesis.A weed plant called pueraia Montana doesn't use oxygen but nitrogen and creates nitrogen oxide which is the pre-stage of ozone, and suffocates nearby plants and human

Is it necessary to plant two fruit trees for them to bear fruit?

That depends on what type of fruit tree it is. Some fruit trees including most apple and pear trees are self sterile. This means they cannot be pollinated from a tree of the same variety. Not only do you need a second tree, you need one of a different variety, in other words, still another apple tree but a Granny Smith and a Golden Delicious instead of two the same (note: those variety names are used for illustration purposes only and not specific).Apricots, sour cherries (but not sweet), blueberries, currants, gooseberries, and plums are self pollinating and will produce fruit even on a single tree or bush. Some such as blueberries will produce better yields with multiple plants.And in yet another category, some plants require a male and a female to produce fruit. Most fruit trees are not specifically male or female and you don’t need to plant specifically for that but some are. One example is kiwis. I don’t know of others offhand.

Do rose plant bear fruit?

First of all thanks for A2A,Yes, Rose Plants do bear fruits and they are typically red-to-orange in color, but ranges from dark purple to black in some species. These fruits are called Rose Hips or Rose Haw, and they begin to form after successful pollination of flowers in spring or early summer, and ripen in late summer through autumn. After a rose is pollinated, the petals drop off to reveal the rose fruit, which is called a hip.Rose hips are actually seed pods, and each one contains dozens of seeds.Now coming onto the explanation for this phenomena, as we generally do not see Rose Plant fruits. All flowering plants produce some type of structure that contains and protects the seeds.Fleshy fruit are large and well known… but a botanist calls grain, nut and bean pods fruit because they are the ripened, seed bearing ovary of the plant. Some fruit are dry pods or capsules that on maturing split up and drop out as winged seeds to float away or may shed hooked seeds to hitch rides on fur (animals).Nuts in the rain-forest may float away on water currents.Roses do produce what a botanist considers a fruit just not a soft fleshy fruit like the apple. The rose has a hip as their fruit that contains the seeds known as achenes.(Source: Wikipedia)