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A long-grown mandarin tree and that year's fruit

There were fewer fruit than the number of flowers had suggested, but the mandarin tree still produced a harvest that year. The flavour was rich and delicious, making me remember it as a little sapling.

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Fewer fruit, but still a welcome crop

Although the crop was smaller than the flowers had led me to expect, it bore about two hundred fruit. Some were large, and I found the flavour rich and delicious.

Green to orange mandarins among the leaves.
Sunlit branches, leaves and orange mandarins.
A container filled with mandarins of different sizes.

Fruit still on the tree

With fruit still on the tree, I looked forward to perhaps having enough for New Year without buying more.

More orange fruit, deep among the leaves.
Fruit peeking out between dark green leaves.
Looking up into the branches: more mandarins among the leaves.

Remembering a sapling bought on a New Year visit

It had been about twenty years since I bought the sapling on a New Year shrine visit. I was pleased that the tree was still growing and producing fruit.

Spreading branches and leaves, with fruit still on the tree.

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Based on accounts by haruru.1002.