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Not always.

The spaghetti trees in Switzerland that I first saw on TV have evidently been hybridized. National Geographic was able to photograph a spaghetti azalea in the wild, possibly in the U.S. South.

For some reason, the BBC continues to say it was an April Fool's joke in 1957. They have never admitted that the rare tree, which I saw with my own eyes being harvested by women with wicker baskets, as was the custom, was evidently destroyed by the radiation emitted by their television cameras. It has been quite an elaborate cover-up. Read here:

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The producer's thoughts on the matter (expressed with stereotypical British understatement) are as true as ever:

"I think it was a good idea for people to be aware they couldn't believe everything they saw on the television and that they ought to adopt a slightly critical attitude to it."