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KYOTO -- A sapling cloned from a sacred plum tree at Kyoto's Kitano Tenmangu Shrine blossomed on March 4, reportedly as the first case in the world for a cultured plum tree to flower. The "Tobiume" ...

A pattern has emerged that I do not understand. On planting a new plum tree, it takes a couple of years to establish and then flowers and bears fruit for several years, whereupon it stops flowering ...