Can you ID this tree and unripe fruit?

ejes

ejes

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I have a fellow on another board who is trying to ID this fruit tree. These are the photos he has posted. I told him I knew where to maybe get the answer. :D What do ya'll think it is? I'm thinking it is some type of pear. Maybe an almond leaf pear or callery pear.

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I can't tell from the picture. Does it have a compound leaf?

Is the branching opposite or alternate?

Almost looks like an unripe serviceberry to me.

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Looks like a sugar pear to me. They are quite tasty. You find them around old homesteads out in the woods mostly as the larger pears have taken over for commercial and eating use. I really like sugar pears. They have a bit of a grain, but are quite tasty when ripe. They should get to about the size of a golf ball or a bit larger when ripe.
 
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Could be a serviceberry as hollowdweller says. Definately the Rosaceae family with that bark. Could also be a pear. Hard to tell from pics.
 
It may be part of the Buckeye family. The fruit looks to be immature. Cut it open and see if you have the start of two large nuts or seeds.
 
Buckeye has 5 leaves ! Crab apple has serrated leaves. ??? mystery fruit !
 
Looks a bit like a chokecherry to me. They grow as trees alone or as a bush in a community.

I walk my dogs near a stand, I'll look tonight.
 
I've got a yard full of chokecherry and that isn't it. At first it looked a little like quava to me, but that's pretty tropical.
 
Jeff Clark said:
I've got a yard full of chokecherry and that isn't it. At first it looked a little like quava to me, but that's pretty tropical.
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This fellow lives in Virginia. But you're right, it kinda looks like it.
 
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It looks very similar to American Plum (Prunus americana) that grows down here in the western part of Florida. You can probably do a web-search at your Kansas Forestry Department web site and look it up; or take a sample of leaves and fruit to your local county Agriculture office where a forester may work and can identify the tree.
 
Swampdog said:
It looks very similar to American Plum (Prunus americana) that grows down here in the western part of Florida. You can probably do a web-search at your Kansas Forestry Department web site and look it up; or take a sample of leaves and fruit to your local county Agriculture office where a forester may work and can identify the tree.
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I can't, this fellow lives in Virginia. ;) I know, it is frustrating to me that I can examine it more closely as well.
 
ejes said:
I have a fellow on another board who is trying to ID this fruit tree. These are the photos he has posted. I told him I knew where to maybe get the answer. :D What do ya'll think it is? I'm thinking it is some type of pear. Maybe an almond leaf pear or callery pear.

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Give the man a cigar. :thumbup: It is a callery pear. Depending on where it is, it is probably a "Bradford" callery Pear. I have never found the fruit to be edible but I can't say that I have tried it because the fruit stays very hard. That is some monster Poison Ivy vine wraping itself around the tree.:eek:
Great pics.
trldad
 
There's a guy on PaleoPlanet named Arthur Haines. He is a plant biologist. He will probably help you.

Doc
 
OK.

Non native. No wonder it's in Virginia but I've never seen it here.

Looking at the distribution map on that one link you posted it's on both sides of WV but not here.
 
We have one in our front yard.

Also called the "Ornamental Pear".

Fruits are inedible IIRC....
 
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OK.

Non native. No wonder it's in Virginia but I've never seen it here.

Looking at the distribution map on that one link you posted it's on both sides of WV but not here.
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I don't know, thats kind of wierd. I'm not familiar with your area, but maybe it has something to do with elevation or something.:confused:

Or you frighten it with all your knives:D
 
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