The strawberry tree flowers and ripens fruit at the same time, so in autumn it hangs white bells and red fruit on the same branch.
Strawberry Tree
Madrid put one of these on its coat of arms, a bear reaching up into the branches, and the tree on the Plaza de la Lealtad is the closest thing the city has to the original. This page maps every strawberry tree on the site, 4 so far across 4 cities.
The species is normally a shrub you can see over the top of, which makes the one on Via alla Rocca in Bergamo peculiar: 16 metres tall, with a trunk 355 centimetres around. Autumn is the moment to go. Arbutus unedo flowers and ripens fruit at the same time, so a single branch carries white bells and red fruit at once, the fruit being last year's flowers finally finishing their year. Florence's grows in the Giardino dell'Iris. The fourth stands on a wine estate above Nice at the Chateau de Cremat, whose owners kept rebuilding the same hillside into grander versions of itself.
Florence
Madrid
Madrid's coat of arms shows a bear reaching up into a strawberry tree, and this is the closest thing the city has to the original.
Nice
This tree grows on a wine estate whose owners kept rebuilding the same hillside into ever grander versions of itself.
Bergamo
Most strawberry trees are shrubs you can see over the top of.
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