For best and most consistent quality, European pears are picked when the fruit matures, but before they are ripe.

The fruit is a spiny capsule 4 – 10 cm long and 2 – 6 cm broad, splitting open when ripe to release the numerous seeds.

In about six weeks the vines are cut into pieces eight inches long, which are planted in drills, and from these vine-cuttings the bulbs grow and are ripe about the end of June.

The fruit, called a cacao pod, is ovoid, long and wide, ripening yellow to orange, and weighs about when ripe.

A handful of ripe fruits are chewed until sticky, and the mass is then rubbed between the palms of the hands to form long extremely sticky strands which are then coiled around small thin tree branches where birds perch.

Dates are oval-cylindrical, 3 – 7 cm long, and 2 – 3 cm diameter, and when ripe, range from bright red to bright yellow in colour, depending on variety.

Typically a ripe habanero chili is long.

Seeds are tiny and black, held in long pointed pods that split open when ripe.

The fruit is a hard, woody pear-shaped drupe 4 – 6 cm long and 3 – 5 cm diameter, containing four or five large, oily seeds ; it is green initially, becoming dull brown when ripe in autumn.

When ripe, the fruit is red, pear-shaped, and about long or exceptionally up to long.

This help maintain high levels of acidity to go with the ripe fruit that grapes develop with the long hours of uninterrupted sunshine that they get during the day.

The fertile fronds are shorter, 40 – 60 cm long, brown when ripe, with highly modified and constricted leaf tissue curled over the sporangia ; they develop in autumn, persist erect over the winter and release the spores in early spring.

Cones are 5 – 9 cm long, with thin, fragile scales ; they are dark blue-purple before maturation, turning brown when ripe about 16-18 months after pollination.

Arripis georgianus are thought – due to females retaining both ripe and unripe eggs – to be " partial spawners "; that is, they may spawn over a long period with no real peaks.

The fruit is a woody, oblong, cone-like structure ( like all Magnolias ) 6. 5 – 12 cm long, covered in small, pod-like follicles each containing one or two red seeds that hang out from the cone by a slender thread when ripe.

The fruit is a drupe long and broad, green at first, then yellow and finally red when ripe, containing a single seed.

Larger plants may bloom year round in tropical areas as long as environmental conditions are suitable, plants may have flowers, unripe and ripe fruit at the same time.

The fruit is up to 2. 5 cm long, smooth, dark green, turning yellow when ripe and has a fruity smell.

The fruit is ovoid, 1 – 2 cm long, purple when ripe, grape-like except for its wintergreen smell ; the skin is rough, inedible but easily peeled.

Mithradates had long been preparing a challenge to Roman power and the time was now ripe.

President Wingfield built the great fort, sowed the first crops, imposed strict rationing-planned " for the long time until our harvest would be ripe " ( wrote Wingfield ),-and " every meal of fish or flesh should excuse would cancel out the allowance for porridge ".

The fruit consists of small, globular drupes 5 – 7 mm long, red to black when ripe.

In Southern Africa genera of Amaryllidaceae such as Boophane, Crossyne, and to a lesser extent Brunsvigia, bear inflorescences in the form of globular umbels with long, spoke-like pedicels, either effectively at ground level, or breaking off once the stems are dry and the seeds ripe.

Image: Podophyllum hexandrum ripe fruit early autumn. jpg | The approximately 5 cm long ripe fruit.

Farmers try to harvest hay at the point when the seed heads are not quite ripe and the leaf is at its maximum when the grass is mowed in the field.

The people returned to their villages to harvest crops when the corn was ripe in late summer, or in the spring when the grass became green and they could plant a new cycle of crops.

Wherever they moved ... the cattle was driven away ; the grass and ripe corn were consumed with fire ; and, as soon as the flames had subsided which interrupted the march of Julian, he beheld the melancholy face of a smoking and naked desert.

During the breeding season, Gouldian Finches feed mostly on ripe or half-ripe grass seeds of sorghum.

Eventually it was discovered that metallic zinc could be alloyed with copper to make brass ; a process known as speltering and by 1657 the German chemist Johann Glauber had recognised that calamine was " nothing else but unmeltable zinc " and that zinc was a " half ripe metal.

Had the battle actually taken place in the true month of August, when the harvest was becoming ripe, Pompey's strategy of starving Caesar would not be plausible.

According to Master of Wine Mary Ewing-Mulligan, Chianti Classico wines from the Castellina region tend to have a very delicate aroma and flavor, Castelnuovo Berardegna region wines tend to be the most ripe and richest tasting, wines from Gaiole tend to have been characterized by their structure and firm tannins while wines from the Greve area tend to have very concentrated flavours.

If the barley was not ripe an intercalary month would be added before Nisan.

The tree can be hydrophytic, with the fruit often found floating on water near shore during the ripe season.

The fruit can be round or bell shaped ; it is bright orange when fully ripe.

Yellow, then, may be understood as a quale ; it will do no good to read the dictionary and learn that " yellow " names the colour of egg yolks and ripe lemons, or that " yellow " names the primary colour between green and orange on the spectrum, or that the perception of yellow is stimulated by electromagnetic radiation with a wavelength of between 570 and 590 nanometers.

If the barley was not ripe, or various other phenomena indicated that spring was not yet imminent, an intercalary month ( Adar II ) would be added.

This was later termed " Bussa's Rebellion " after the slave ranger, Bussa, who with his assistants hated slavery, found the treatment of slaves on Barbados to be " intolerable ", and believed the political climate in the UK made the time ripe to peacefully negotiate with planters for freedom ( Davis, p. 211 ; Northrup, p. 191 ).

According to tradition, the rod of Aaron bore sweet almonds on one side and bitter on the other ; if the Israelites followed the Lord, the sweet almonds would be ripe and edible, but if they were to forsake the path of the Lord, the bitter almonds would predominate.

Many varieties of the same species can be used in many different ways ; for example, C. annuum includes the " bell pepper " variety, which is sold in both its immature green state and its red, yellow or orange ripe state.

In ripe fruits which are commonly eaten fresh, the skin may be thicker and bitter tasting, so is typically not eaten.

Vin Santo with almond biscuitsA general rule is that the wine should be sweeter than the food it is served with-a perfectly ripe peach has been described as the ideal partner for many dessert wines, whereas it makes sense not to drink wine at all with many chocolate-and toffee-based dishes.

January to May, the ripe cane are cut and delivered to the mill to be ground.

It is better to sow them as soon as ripe, either in cold frames or seedbeds outdoors, where they can be left in situ for 1 to 2 years before being planted in their permanent positions, or in pots, where the plants can be put out into their permanent positions in summer or autumn.

It was the time of the barley harvest, and flax and barley are ripe at the same time in the Jordan valley, so that " the bundles of flax stalks might have been expected to be drying just then ".

For example, Russian geographer Georgi Plekhanov argued that the reason his nation was still in the feudal era, rather than having progressed to capitalism and becoming ripe for the revolution into communism, was that the wide plains of Russia allowed class conflicts to be easily diffused.

In fact, acouchis will often respond to the sound of ripe fruit falling from trees by frenziedly running towards what they hope will be their next tasty meal.

Peppercorns, and the powdered pepper derived from grinding them, may be described simply as pepper, or more precisely as black pepper ( cooked and dried unripe fruit ), green pepper ( dried unripe fruit ) and white pepper ( dried ripe seeds ).

Varietal styles, made from only the Sauvignon Blanc grape, from Adelaide Hills and Padthaway have a style distinctive from their New Zealand neighbors that tend to be more ripe in flavor with white peach and lime notes and slightly higher acidity.

Varying between species, the skin can be any thickness, is usually green before maturity, but becomes yellow, maroon, or green when ripe.

They can be eaten raw, especially when ripe, when they are sweet to the taste.

Mill held that certain amount of conscience, and of disinterested public spirit, may fairly be calculated on in the citizens of any community ripe for representative government, but that " it would be ridiculous to expect such a degree of it, combined with such intellectual discernment, as would be proof against any plausible fallacy tending to make that which was for their class interest appear the dictate of justice and of the general good.