What are these?

[Rowanm77]

We used to have a crabapple in our meadow until a storm blew it over. I kinda remember the fruits were more solid, like an apple. Maybe it's just the way the photo is taken but the fruits look more translucent, much like the wild honeysuckle bushes we have in NJ. The bark on yours is different though.

 

[Rowanm77]

I forwarded the photo to a friend of mine that raises all kinds of plants both for nursery and for farms and I will see what she says.

 

[arlee453]

We also had a crabapple tree growing up at our 'other' house that we rented out in my parent's home town (same place we would visit where the neighbors had chickens...). That tree had larger reddish fruits that would fall off in the yard everywhere in late summer.

In my recollection (from waaaaay back over 30 yrs ago) the fruits were about the size of a ping pong ball, or a bit smaller.

When we moved to that house full time after my mother died (I was 11 yrs old), that was one of the first landscaping things my dad did - get rid of that crab apple. My mother had always hated it and I think maybe he cut it down to honor her memory after she died. I'm sure if she were still alive then she would have made him cut it down first thing...

Susan

 

[MandyH]

As stated earlier, it IS a crabapple. Bout the only thing they are good for is pelting your kid sister with. Although way back I remember my great grandmother made crabapple jelly. Never ate it though, she died when I was little. They get pretty big, and have BEAUTIFUL foliage in the spring. The leaves turn red and the whole tree looks like it is on fire.

 

[freerange freaks]

I don't want to argue or maybe I have just misunderstood the description. If it has: lance shaped leaves, purplish bark on young twigs, lenticles (horizontal slash marks in the bark), pulpy fruit with a pit, bright red leaves in the fall and an abundance of trees all over the property then I would suggest that you have a cherry. Likely a pin cherry, Prunus pensylvanica.

I know you have already established that it was a crabapple but crabapples do not have pits, they have seeds just like a miniature apple. Or maybe you could just give it an entirely new name how about, a "biddyberry" [grin]