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The market was driven by demand in Paris and Tokyo, and brokers built a network of little buying stations wherever mushrooms were fruiting.

From New York Times • May 11, 2011

The wayside brambles were fruiting; I picked and ate, and ate on, until I had come within sight of an inn where I might have made a meal. 

From The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft by Gissing, George

I am not sure but I have quite a vivid remembrance that the trees from which these nuts were gathered were fruiting in Washington's time.

From Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the 13th Annual Meeting Rochester, N.Y. September, 7, 8 and 9, 1922 by Northern Nut Growers Association

The year before I had gone into a clump of plums when they were fruiting and tied white rags to the best.

From Old Rail Fence Corners The A. B. C's. of Minnesota History by Morris, Lucy Leavenworth Wilder