Is this a crab apple of some kind?

[Al Cormack]

 

Seems early to have fruit already?

 

 

Tree Surgeon - Woking | Cormack Tree Care Ltd

[kev7937]

Prunus cerasifera maybe.

[Pinkfoot]

Prunus cerasifera maybe.

Yea , does look plum like.

Probably have yellow fruit when ripe and the East Europeans think they are lovely ..for a while.

 

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[peatff]

Yea , does look plum like.

Probably have yellow fruit when ripe and the East Europeans think they are lovely ..for a while.

 

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Like a Greengage ? There are a couple growing in hedges round here which don't fruit often but when they do the fruit is nice and sweet.

[daltontrees]

Yea , does look plum like.

Probably have yellow fruit when ripe and the East Europeans think they are lovely ..for a while.

 

This does not look like Prunus, it looks like Malus. If you can, open one of the fruit. It will be plain even in the unripe state whether it has a stone (Prunus and other genera) or pips (Malus/Pyrus and a few other genera).

Edited May 8, 2017 by daltontrees

[kev7937]

This does not look like Prunus, it looks like Malus. If you can, open one of the fruit. It will be plain even in the unripe state whether it has a stone (Prunus and other genera) or pips (Malus/Pyrus and a few other genera).

 

 

I'd say the opposite twig, bud and fruit look most prunus like to me leaf alone may cause confusion but all together says prunus.

 

Waiting for the fruit to be dissected now.

[daltontrees]

I'd say the opposite twig, bud and fruit look most prunus like to me leaf alone may cause confusion but all together says prunus.

 

Waiting for the fruit to be dissected now.

 

It wold be nice to fidn out for sure. The fruit looks more Prunus than Malus, mainly due to the lack of remains of the flower body. BUt I've looked at the book for about 3o species of Prunus and I can't see any that have this waxier, roundly serrated leaf and no basal glands.

[daltontrees]

And what's it doing fruiting at this time?

[kev7937]

And what's it doing fruiting at this time?

 

 

I'd always thought as they flower early the fruit would be early too.

 

Never kept a diary mind.

[Pinkfoot]

And what's it doing fruiting at this time?

I think it needs a bollocking

 

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