The mind drops them as a branch drops its overripe fruit.
Green trees in every shade clumped together like heads of overripe broccoli.
Overripe strawberries will be dull and dark, with limp stems.
When buying navel oranges, select those with small sized navels as larger navels indicate that they were overripe when picked.
Taking the carbon exhumed by industrial combustion from the geologic past and stacking it into overripe living woodpiles is an approach of questionable wisdom.