Oct 26 2009
Surprise and Expectations Violated
I was pleasantly surprised this weekend upon seeing that some of the oranges on our tree were turning yellow.
Huh? The tree in question had never fruited before, not in our decade of living where we do, despite being much taller than me.
When the tree blossomed this spring I assumed it was another orange. The leaves look identical to the ones on a tree not 50 feet from it. (Unfortunately, that one is a wild, sour orange. Can’t eat the fruit.) This past Saturday, while wandering around our yard, I spied changes in the tree’s now very large oranges. They had turned yellow. It took my mind a couple seconds to break free of my prior expectations/assumptions to realize, “Hey, it’s a grapefruit tree!”
Will the fruit be sweet (at least for a grapefruit)? I hope so. Even if not, I continue to be pleased by the unique, seasonal growth of the tree species in our yard.
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[BTW - the above pic is of an immature fruit on our orange tree.]
