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#Preferably the beracha should be recited on trees located outside of the city. <ref> Chazon Ovadia page 8, Kaf Hachayim 226:3 quoting Lev Chayim 45. </ref>  
#Preferably the beracha should be recited on trees located outside of the city. <ref> Chazon Ovadia page 8, Kaf Hachayim 226:3 quoting Lev Chayim 45. </ref>  
==How many trees?==
==How many trees?==
# One should only make the Bracha upon seeing two fruit trees. <ref> Chazon Ovadyah (Pesach pg 13-5 note 9), Sh"t Tzitz Eliezer 12:20(6) </ref> However, some argue that one may make the Bracha even on one tree. <ref>Nitai Gavriel (Pesach 6:11) writes that according to the strict law one may make Birkat Ilanot on one tree. Kaf Hachaim 226:2 and Teshuvot vihanhagot 1:191. </ref>
# One should only make the Bracha upon seeing two fruit trees. <ref> Chazon Ovadyah (Pesach pg 13-5 note 9), Sh"t Tzitz Eliezer 12:20(6) </ref> However, some argue that one may make the Bracha even on one tree. <ref>Nitai Gavriel (Pesach 6:11) writes that according to the strict law one may make Birkat Ilanot on one tree. Kaf Hachaim 226:2 and Teshuvot Vihanhagot 1:191 agree. </ref>
# It's sufficient to have two trees of the same type but it's preferable to have trees of different types. <ref> Chazon Ovadyah (pesach pg 14), Halachot Ketanot 2:28. Kaf Hachayim 226:2 says also that it doesn't need to be 2 separate types. </ref>
# It's sufficient to have two trees of the same type but it's preferable to have trees of different types. <ref> Chazon Ovadyah (pesach pg 14), Halachot Ketanot 2:28. Kaf Hachayim 226:2 says also that it doesn't need to be 2 separate types. </ref>


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