Tree
The kaki tree reaches a size of up to ten meters. It is similar in shape to an apple tree. Its deciduous leaves are medium to dark green, broadly lanceolate, stiff and equally wide as long. It blooms from May to June. Trees are typically either male or female, but some produce both types of flowers. Furthermore, the sexual expression of a tree may vary from year to year. Unusually, the kaki fruits are ripe when the leaves have already fallen off the tree are for the most part (October–November).
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“Strong to break dead things,
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the old tree, ready to drop,
to lift from the rotting bed
of leaves, the old
crumbling pine tree stock.”
—Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)
“On a tree by a river a little tom-tit
Sang “Willow, titwillow, titwillow!”
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Is it a weakness of intellect, birdie?” I cried,
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—Sir William Schwenck Gilbert (1836–1911)
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—Punjabi proverb, trans. by Gurinder Singh Mann.