CarolM
Well-Known Member
I so wish I had an almond tree. My youngest and I both love almonds. And it would be so much healthier to eat them direct from a tree than shop bought. Lol.@Kristoff :
This is a young 'volunteer' almond tree in my manure pile, about 5' tall. I guess a bird dropped an almond as he was flying by. Anyway, the almond you see in the picture grew out of the center of a blossom. When the nut is ripe, in the fall, the green outer hull starts to shrivel, opens and the nuts (still in their outer shell) fall to the ground:
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Love the pictures and education on Almond trees. Very interesting.