The process or time period of fruit development and ripening on a plant; the stage when a plant is fruiting.
From Latin fructus (fruit) plus the suffix -escence (meaning the process or beginning of becoming). This specialized botanical term creates a noun describing the entire fruiting phase rather than the fruit itself.
Botanists use fructescence to mark a precise growth phase, but the word sounds almost musical—like it's describing the plant's grand transformation into something useful and sweet.
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