Particular time comes to hand for the fruit producer (4,4)
I believe the answer is:
date palm
'fruit producer' is the definition.
The definition and answer can be both plants as well as being singular nouns.
Maybe you can see a link between them that I don't see?
'particular time comes to hand' is the wordplay.
'particular time' becomes 'date' (date is a kind of time. I am not sure about the 'particular' bit.).
'comes to' is a charade indicator (letters next to each other).
'hand' becomes 'palm' (I've seen this before).
'date'+'palm'='DATE-PALM'
'for the' acts as a link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for date palm that I've seen before include "Fruit-bearing tree" , "Tree with sweet fruit" , "N African fruit tree" , "that can bear fruit" , "Tree bearing fruit with stones" .)