sapling
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Tyler and Cora steady a western redbud sapling as Atticus holds up a bag of soil and Eliza shovels out the fragrant earth.
From Los Angeles Times • May 23, 2026
Centuries after a group of travellers planted a sapling and waited to see if it would live, the answer is still there.
From BBC • May 2, 2026
That syrupy-sweet and shockingly crisp fruit came from an unremarkable sapling that Bedford, then a graduate student, had rescued from the discard pile of a University of Minnesota breeding program.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 15, 2025
It takes an avocado sapling three years to begin producing fruit and about five years to provide a full yield.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 20, 2024
The old satyr’s body melted, until all that was left was a tiny sapling in a pile of fresh soiL “A laurel,” Grover said in awe.
From "The Last Olympian" by Rick Riordan
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