After about five years, cacao trees start producing large fruits called pods, which grow near the trunk of the tree.

VOA: special.2010.02.17

I'd like to go by climbing a birch tree, And climb black branches up a snow-white trunk toward heaven, till the tree could bear no more, But dipped its top and set me down again.

我真想去爬白桦树，沿着雪白的树干，爬上乌黑的树枝，爬向那天心，直到树身再支撑不住，树梢碰着地，把我放下来。

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Sylvie's bare feet and tiny fingers grabbed the tree's rough trunk.

VOA: special.2010.04.03