On the way to supper I tasted a black berry I don't think it was actually a blackberry but it was luscious and cone shaped and it was purple and it did have seeds it grew on a single trunk with a rounded canopy I don't think it was topiary anyway I ate a stem with the berry fancying it a bit like mint and while it wasn't lamb for dinner I tasted mint until I returned to the tree after supper I tasted a black berry and ate a stem with the berry.

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