What are these?

[Amanda]

looks like some type of chokecherry??? do a google image search for chokecherry, see if that helps.

 

[peepsnbunnies]

If you still can't figure out what it is, try going to your local County Extention Office. Ours has a Master Gardener on staff. They may be able to identify your tree. Is it too late in the season for it to be some kind of apple?

 

[KrisRose]

I second the Chokecherry.

 

[nccountrygirl]

It looks like a crabapple tree. I have on in my front yard and it looks like mine

 

[Rosalind]

Not a chokecherry. Chokecherries have long strings of "cherries", not individual berries like that. Definitely some kind of wild cherry or plum, if it only has one pit in the middle. Could be a beach plum, they have fruit about as big as cherries but are technically plums. Also shrubby and have those type of leaves & bark, used in landscaping sometimes.

 

[jessied1227]

It is indeed a crab apple. While I was at the hospital with my husband today, I stepped outside for a quick puff (I know, terrible habit) and was standing next to this older lady. I was looking at all the nice flowers they had when I realized the tree they had in the middle of the flower bed was my tree, just pruned different.

The lady asked me what I was looking at, because I was like, up in the tree almost, lol, and I told her the story. Her family used to have a nursery, long story short, she identified it as a crabapple, and said we shouldn't eat the berries.

Thanks for everyone's help. Isn't it strange how answers often come from the most unexpected places?

Thanks again!
Jess

 

[nccountrygirl]

Yeah I won, glad you found out what it was

 

[jessied1227]

Have you ever let your chickens have the berries? If you haven't, go get a bowl and pick a whole bunch, they come off real easy, and drop a couple to let the chickens a taste, then toss the whole bowlful down and *step away from the feeding frenzy*!!!

Thanks again guys-
Jess

 

[barg]

Quote:
Pardon me, but if you page back I think crab apple may have already been suggested by one of the board’s very astute members

Better make that We won...
We had a crabapple tree when I was a kid and I used to eat them, although I didnt eat much of them because they taste pretty bad.

I'm not an expert on crabapples but if your not supposed to eat them, it's news to me, is that true?

I thought they were good for making pies, if you can get enough of them and want to spend the time.

Ive never had a crabapple pie but I thought I remebered hearing that you could make one with them.

Glad you figured it out

 

[barg]

I found this info on them.
Fruit
Apples and crabapples are in the rose family, Rosaceae, in the genus Malus. Crabapples are differentiated from apples based on fruit size. If fruit is two inches in diameter or less, it is termed a crabapple. If the fruit is larger than two inches, it is classified as an apple.

Fruit is borne in the summer and fall. Colors range from dark-reddish purples through the reds and oranges to golden yellow and even some green. On certain selections the fruit can remain attractive well into the late winter. The larger fruited cultivars offer a bonus because the fruit can be spiced or used in jelly.

We had two different varietys when I was a kid, one was very small fruit the other was larger, all were sour.
Assumeing they are crabapples, it would seem that they are safe

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