The fruit is allowed to mature on the tree, but it is still firm at this point.

Just because a tree or other object appears in a certain spot is absolutely no reason to place it in the same position in the painting, unless the position serves the design of the whole composition.

Now the thing for us to do is to find ourselves a couple of those wonderful flowering currants such as the red Ribes sanguineum of our Pacific Northwest, or otherwise a good sloe tree, or perhaps some nice pussy willow in bloom, preferably one with male or staminate catkins.

This is in honor of John Ledyard, class of 1773, who scooped a canoe out of a handy tree and first set the course way back in his own student days.

Coffee is made from the roasted and ground seeds of the coffee tree.

" The state tree is the Longleaf Pine, the state flower is the Camellia.

Apollo as a handsome beardless young man, is often depicted with a kithara ( as Apollo Citharoedus ) or bow in his hand, or reclining on a tree ( the Apollo Lykeios and Apollo Sauroctonos types ).

Young of the Cuban tree frog ( Osteopilus septentrionalis ) can occasionally be cannibalistic, the younger tadpoles attacking a larger, more developed tadpole when it is undergoing metamorphosis.

The granular poison frog ( Oophaga granulifera ) is typical of a number of tree frogs in the poison dart frog family Dendrobatidae.

The usually nocturnal Cuban tree frog ( Osteopilus septentrionalis ) produces a rain call when there is rainfall during daylight hours.

Less can be said about the Asterales themselves with certainty, although since several families in Asterales contain trees, the ancestral member is most likely to have been a tree or shrub.

The phylogenetic tree presented below is based on Panero & Funk ( 2002 ).

* 1964 – Prometheus, a bristlecone pine and the world's oldest tree, is cut down.

), is a species of tree native to the Middle East and South Asia.

" Almond " is also the name of the edible and widely cultivated seed of this tree.

The almond is a small deciduous tree, growing in height, with a trunk of up to in diameter.

The calcium carbonate dust is a respiratory irritant and the particles can penetrate into the lower respiratory tree and cause irritant bronchitis and other respiratory irritation responses.

* 1964 – Prometheus, a bristlecone pine and the world's oldest tree, is cut down.

Amber is fossilized tree resin ( not sap ), which has been appreciated for its color and natural beauty since Neolithic times.

It is thought that, in addition to exuding onto the surface of the tree, amber resin also originally flowed into hollow cavities or cracks within trees, thereby leading to the development of large lumps of amber of irregular form.

Both the Latin and the Germanic words derive from the Proto-Indo-European root el -, meaning " red " or " brown ", which is also a root for the English words " elk " and another tree: " elm ", a tree distantly related to the alders.

Old Norse askr literally means " ash tree " but the etymology of embla is uncertain, and two possibilities of the meaning of embla are generally proposed.

The marine was alone, for they were impatient people and by now would have vied to knock him from the tree.

Future work endeavours to reconstruct the now more complex tree of life.

The father-to-son family tree, now in its 83rd generation, has been recorded since the death of Confucius.

The Roman author Vitruvius, relying on the writings ( now lost ) of Greek authors, tells us that the ancient Greeks believed that their Doric order developed from techniques for building in wood in which the earlier smoothed tree trunk was replaced by a stone cylinder.

In Livonia ( present-day Latvia and Estonia ), in 1441, 1442, 1510 and 1514, the Brotherhood of Blackheads erected a tree for the holidays in their guild houses in Reval ( now Tallinn ) and Riga.

She decided to stay in Geneva alone, living first on the lake at Plongeon ( near the present United Nations buildings ) and then at the Rue de Chanoines ( now the Rue de la Pelisserie ) with François and Juliet d ’ Albert Durade on the second floor (" one feels in a downy nest high up in a good old tree ").

In his response, Achilles points out that while Hector was terrorizing the Greek forces now, while he himself had fought in their front lines, Hector had ' no wish ' to take his force far beyond the walls and out from the Skiaian Gate and nearby oak tree.

In part due to these changing circumscriptions, the name " Mimosa " has also been applied to several other related species with similar pinnate or bipinnate leaves, but are now classified in other genera, most commonly to Albizia julibrissin ( silk tree ) and Acacia dealbata ( wattle ).

Near the cathedral, in the garden of the ancient Palais des Archevêques ( now Musée des Beaux-Arts ), is a huge cedar tree planted by Napoleon.

Both trees have toppled sideways, the younger tree in the Great Storm of 1987, and are now earthed up round the trunks, but continue to fruit every year.

* Germination of the Bristlecone pine tree " Methuselah " about 2700 BC, the oldest known tree still living now.

Tantalus's punishment for his act, now a proverbial term for temptation without satisfaction ( the source of the English word tantalise ), was to stand in a pool of water beneath a fruit tree with low branches.

An older tree, unfortunately now cut down, was dated at 4, 900 years old.

The apple tree root is now regarded as a curio and kept by the Rhode Island Historical Society at the John Brown House Museum.

The pistachio, Pistacia vera in the Anacardiaceae family, is a small tree originally from Greater Iran ( Iran and Iraq ) which now can also be found in regions of Syria, Lebanon, Turkey, Greece, Tunisia, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, India, Pakistan, Egypt, Italy ( Sicily ), Uzbekistan, Afghanistan ( especially in the provinces of Samangan and Badghis ), and the United States, specifically in California.

According to legend Penn made a treaty of friendship with Lenape chief Tammany under an elm tree at Shackamaxon, in what is now the city's Fishtown section.

Peach tree is portrayed in the domuswall paintings of the towns destroyed by the Vesuvius eruption of 79 AD, with the oldest artistic representations of peach fruit, discovered so far, are in the two fragments of wall paintings, dated back to the 1st century AD, in Herculaneum, now preserved in the National Archaeological Museum in Naples.

The tree onion or Egyptian onion produces bulblets in the flower head instead of flowers, and is now known to be a hybrid of A. cepa × A. fistulosum.

Moreover, the magic apples are now a horror to her, which is why the tree repels her.

Tantalus's punishment for his actions ( now a proverbial term for " temptation without satisfaction ") was to stand in a pool of water beneath a fruit tree with low branches.

An Ogeechee lime tree that he planted while employed at the University is now called the Tom Petty tree .< ref >

The gardens now boast a fabulous collection of aged and colossal rhododendrons and camellias, a series of lakes fed by a ram pump over a hundred years old, highly productive flower and vegetable gardens, an Italian garden, and a stunning wild area filled with primaeval-looking sub-tropical tree ferns called " The Jungle ".

The genus Celtis ( hackberry or nettle tree ), formerly included in the Ulmaceae, is now included in the family Cannabaceae.