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.

Pace had opposed the planting of the grove of memorial trees calling it paganism, and his group has chopped down David Koresh's tree and smashed his plaque, to prevent it from being used for idolatry.

So a house is a being, a person's body is a being, a tree is a being, a cloud is a being, and so on.

He had published a fairy-tale called The Fir-Tree in 1844, recounting the fate of a fir-tree being used as a Christmas tree.

The London-based Rainforest Foundation notes that " the UN figure is based on a definition of forest as being an area with as little as 10 % actual tree cover, which would therefore include areas that are actually savannah-like ecosystems and badly damaged forests.

The tree rape scene has been described by some as being misogynistic.

Redwood tree in northern California redwood forest, where many Sequoia sempervirens | redwood trees are managed for preservation and longevity, rather than being harvested for wood production

The only one of these words that is revealed in the film is " it ," which is picked up on when Arthur, upon being asked to cut down the mightiest tree in the forest with a herring, declares that " it can't be done.

Latex being collected from a rubber tapping | tapped Pará rubber tree | rubber tree

The importance of hybridization in creating new species of animals is unclear, although cases have been seen in many types of animals, with the gray tree frog being a particularly well-studied example.

According to aboriginal oral traditions, as well as archaeological evidence, maple tree sap was being processed into syrup long before Europeans arrived in the region.

Many Heathen groups adopt variants of Norse mythology as a basis to their beliefs, conceiving of the Earth as being situated on a great world tree called Yggdrasil.

And remember, since God is supposed to be just a mind, without a body, that we shouldn't imagine a human being sitting there and looking like he's concentrating hard just before this tree pops into existence.

Originally, The Weakest Link: Champions League, which featured eight players who had won games on the daytime edition, battled off once again for £ 20, 000 ( with a money tree of £ 50 -£ 100 -£ 200 -£ 500 -£ 1, 000 -£ 1, 500 -£ 2, 000 -£ 2, 500 ; with the sixth round being a triple round for £ 7, 500 ).

A few months later, the contestants were cut down to seven, as well as the time from 45 minutes to 30, however, the prize money remained the same ( with a money tree of £ 50 -£ 100 -£ 250 -£ 1, 000 -£ 1, 750 -£ 2, 500 ; the seventh round being a double round for £ 10, 000 ).

The tree is described as having foliage of red gold and being the most beautiful tree among both gods and men.

In the second stanza of the Poetic Edda poem Völuspá, the völva ( a shamanic seeress ) reciting the poem to the god Odin says that she remembers far back to " early times ", being raised by jötnar, recalls nine worlds and " nine wood-ogresses " ( Old Norse nío ídiðiur ), and when Yggdrasil was a seed (" glorious tree of good measure, under the ground ").

The Yule log was originally an entire tree, that was carefully chosen and brought into the house with great ceremony with the purpose being to provide maximum warmth and endurance.

Julia Butterfly Hill lived in Luna, a-tall, 600-year-old California Redwood tree for 738 days, successfully preventing it from being cut down.

The bristlecone pine, being exceptionally long-lived and slow growing, has been used for this purpose, with still-living and dead specimens providing tree ring patterns going back thousands of years.

While the house had long been claimed to have been built circa 1640 ( and being the oldest wood-framed house in North America ), core samples of wood taken from a summer beam confirmed the wood was from an oak tree felled in 1637-8.