Occasionally branches with the tougher stemmed fruits clinging to them would be added as special "treats'.

In a picture of cakes at the Hotel Umbria in Assisi you can actually feel the dried fruit in the grigliata Umbra clinging to your teeth.

An amuse-bouche of a plump Malpeque oyster, poached in strawberry vinegar with tiny bits of fruit clinging to it, is a wonderful example of his approach.

The plant spreads by the rosettes and fruits detaching from the stem and floating to another area on currents or by fruits clinging to objects, and animals.

He lifted the skeleton bunch of grapes - now with only a few fruit clinging on precariously - back to the metal bedside cabinet.

Toward the end of the second day he found a few withered fruits clinging to a gnarled tree.

The beans, with sticky fruit still clinging to them, are then placed for 12 to 24 hours in concrete tanks where the sugar in the fruit ferments, turning to alcohol.

I had found this one in a sheltered spot, a few of the distinctive fruits still clinging to its stalk.