LIME SPINNERS

On a windy day these items came spinning down gracefully from the tree above.

 

To spread its seeds as widely as possible the lime tree supplies each little bunch of seeds with a bract that acts as an autogyro spinning the seeds away from the mother tree. each bract may carry from one  up to five fruits.

Although there is a row of about ten mature limes beside the old railway wall at Tesco, Thornbury, this tree seems to be the only one that is fruiting.