Showering of seeds and fruits

Showering of seeds and fruits

We have trees like Neem, Coconut, Ashoka and Mango. When fruits ripen they fall down. It is fun to watch the rain / shower of fruits during winds / rains. Coconut trees let go ripened fruits with a great thud. This happens mostly at night. Next morning we search and take the fallen ones. My neighbor's son is mighty afraid of coming near the tree lest a coconut falls on his head. I read that chances of a coconut falling on your head are almost nil - 1 in 270,000,000 !

Neem tree flushes out lots of flowers, raw and ripened fruits at the slightest disturbance. They are so plentiful that once my terrace was paved with a green carpet, soft and smooth.  With Ashoka, (we have two of these) it is really raining flowers and fruits. 

Let me come to Mango, my favorite. This season we have been more than blessed. Everyday, just the fallen ones' count averages to 15. Unfortunately nearly half of them break when reaching the ground. They fall on the terrace, sunshades, plastic roof over water tank, on to metal drainage cover and of course on plain earth. The sound they produce on hitting the floor is different each time and varies with the time - day or night. During the night, I keep waking up due to this fruit-falling phenomenon, keeping a mental count as to how many I should expect to collect the next morning. The actual will be more than my count, of course.

After such a bountiful collection, disposal is a problem. We give them away to friends. We have covered every household nearby, every person we can think of, in this task. Raddhi fellow, paper boy, milk supplier, servants around - no one is spared. And they thank us for thinking of them. Still our kitchen table / dining hall smells like a fruit shop for most of the time. That's why we should remove the rotten ones quickly.

What is your experience of fruit falling? Pleasant or fearsome? WHY?

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