If your tree doesn't bear fruit the first year, give it time.
During that week you will look for small trees bearing hard fruit.
Even today the tree bears no fruit, though it has leaves.
"If the tree does not bear fruit, cut it down."
Female trees bear small flowers on short branchlets of their own.
Though the fruit are small, the tree bears them abundantly.
In Malaya, it is said that the tree bears best after a long, dry season.
"A forest of short trees bearing great pods about twelve feet long."
Seedling trees bear 5,000 to 10,000 small fruits per year in India.
The vigorously growing tree can bear heavy crops of fruit once or twice a year.