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Recent Examples of fruiting
Look for fruiting fig varieties that are ideal for containers and can fruit year-round indoors.
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Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 14 Mar. 2026
Fall-fruiting raspberries fruit on canes that grew in the current season (primocanes), whereas summer-bearing raspberries only develop fruit on second-year canes (floricanes).
—Lauren Landers, Better Homes & Gardens, 4 Feb. 2026
Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 14 Mar. 2026
Fall-fruiting raspberries fruit on canes that grew in the current season (primocanes), whereas summer-bearing raspberries only develop fruit on second-year canes (floricanes).
—Lauren Landers, Better Homes & Gardens, 4 Feb. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for fruiting
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The arboretum also provides its own cherry blossom map, where bloom enthusiasts can explore 75 varieties of flowering cherry trees on the arboretum's campus, about 17 miles outside of Center City Philadelphia.—
Kaitlyn McCormick,
USA Today,
31 Mar. 2026
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Warm temperatures and rain have kick-started the growth of many of our wonderful flowering trees and shrubs.—
Markis Hill,
Kansas City Star,
28 Mar. 2026
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The sun is shining, the flowers and trees are blooming, and people are getting outside to enjoy long walks.—
Dallas Morning News,
Dallas Morning News,
29 Mar. 2026
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The trees and the plants are blooming.—
Lauren Whitney,
CBS News,
27 Mar. 2026
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The Trail Blazers play five more games in the next 11 days, including a crucial April 10 matchup against the Los Angeles Clippers that will decide seeding for the Western Conference play-in.—
Julia Poe,
Chicago Tribune,
2 Apr. 2026
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Rich Gonzalez, the meet director for the Arcadia Invitational, will begin seeding athletes this week.—
Eric Sondheimer,
Los Angeles Times,
30 Mar. 2026
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That means that winemakers across what is now France must have switched from domesticating wild grapes to propagating them directly—that is, cloning grapevines by taking cuttings of the plants to start new groves.—
Jackie Flynn Mogensen,
Scientific American,
24 Mar. 2026
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Here are two simple methods for propagating ZZ plants.—
SJ McShane,
Martha Stewart,
10 Mar. 2026
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“Fruiting.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fruiting. Accessed 5 Apr. 2026.
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