sapling

One nursery owner last year threatened to burn millions of young saplings after nature restoration budgets for tree planting were plundered to fund local authority pay rises.

The roughly 400-year-old specimen of spreading and enveloping branches was just a sapling at chattel slavery’s 1619 arrival in North America.

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.

The tea plants in lunar soil flourished, performing on par with those in Devonian soil, while the Mars saplings failed to grow.

It was brought from Grenada to south-west London as a sapling in the 1980s by one of the street's residents, Marline Anderson, who died in June.