'off the tree' is not standard English.
It is a colloquial expression that is commonly used in spoken English. For example: "My brother picked all the apples off the tree yesterday."
Avocados ripen off the tree.
The nuts can even be eaten off the tree without the traditional roasting, he said.
Over six decades the townspeople effectively fend off curious outsiders, even pruning off the tree limb that Kite hung from.
The clothes gift vouchers were singeing holes in my youngest daughter's fashionable pockets the moment they fell off the tree.
It had just come off the tree, and the flavor was something rarely found in a supermarket apple.
Some dollars might have fallen off the tree, at least for Marie-Louise, since thankful pilgrims often gave her money.
Onychophorans are probably closely related to arthropods and branched off the tree just before a fully hardened exoskeleton and jointed legs evolved.
Mummy, do the leaves fall off the tree in spring or in autumn?
Both sexes have stubby black bills, which are perfect for nipping off the tree buds that bullfinches relish.
