Q. Last year, my plum tree didn’t have any fruit at all. This spring, it has so many plums that I’m afraid the branches may break! Why? This phenomenon is called “alternate year bearing ...

If you have a small yard or even just a patio space, you may be surprised to learn there are a number of fruit-bearing trees ...

Matt Mattia used both hands to flip through the branch at his eye level, studying each side of every leaf as sunlight ...

The loquat tree originated in China and grows in subtropical ... a large evergreen shrub that bears dozens of bulb-shaped orange fruit in the late spring and early summer. Loquats are native ...

Persimmons are one of the best fruit trees that can be planted in North Central Florida. Not only do the trees grow well in this climate, they also produce uniquely delicious fruit. Persimmons ...

The seedless navel orange was the result of a mutation which occurred in a tree planted in a monastery in Bahia, Brazil in the early 1800s. The mutation caused a second rudimentary fruit to form ...

One morning last summer I was sitting at my desk, staring idly out the window, when a woman stopped in front of a nectarine tree in my front yard. The fruits were small and still pretty hard, so I ...