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Help to identify plant

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  • emmarodriguezzzemmarodriguezzz Posts: 20
    Ladybird4 said:
    emma, I can't promise anything but I'm at the RHS Tatton Flower Show tomorrow so I'll take the picture of your plant and ask around whilst I'm there.
    p.s. can you just confirm it is a shrub and not a climber.
    Thanks so much! It is indeed a shrub
  • Ladybird4Ladybird4 Posts: 37,906
    Thanks Emma. I'll do my best.
    Cacoethes: An irresistible urge to do something inadvisable
  • PhaidraPhaidra Posts: 582
    B3 said:
    What about a pomegranate
    I'm afraid not a pomegranate.  Plenty of them too in my grandfather's orchard, both the "sweet", which had ruby red seeds, and the "sour" ones with rather anaemic seeds that were far less sweet.

    tree and fruits
                      

    fruit


    small leaves



    seeds



    The purple fruit looks a bit like this but it's the... wrong colour!  Intriguing!


  • foxwalesfoxwales Posts: 69
    Variety of 'Brindleberry'
    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garcinia
  • Helen P3Helen P3 Posts: 1,152
    Phaidra said:....


    My Greek grandfather had plenty in his orchard, so I've known them since childhood.  I love their blossom, the flavour of the beautifully perfumed fruit itself and the tea you can make out of their sun-dried leaves!  
    Hi Phaidra, I wonder if you have any recipes for quince.  I don't have a quince tree but I can buy the fruit in autumn. I've had quince jelly and I liked it.  I believe you can't eat the fruit raw.  So, is there anything else you can do with quince?  ... I might buy my own tree in order to make that aromatic tea!
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    edited July 2019
    foxwales said:
    Variety of 'Brindleberry'
    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garcinia
    I’ve already suggested that, no ridges in the fruit. 
    I still think it is, the top 2 fruits haven’t got ridges in the OP, maybe they plump up a bit more and lose the ridges? 

    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • floraliesfloralies Posts: 2,718
    The only fruit i can find like it is one of the Eugenia Uniflora the family myrtaceae. The fruits are similar and I think there are more hardy ones.
  • fidgetbonesfidgetbones Posts: 17,618
    edited July 2019
    Brazilian cherry?

    Eugenia uniflora has similar fruit, also called surinam cherry.

    How big are these fruit? Could you post a photo with a coin or ruler for comparison?

    Francis water gum, aka Syzygium francisi

    (syn. Eugenia francisili)  Has purple ridged berries.



  • Kitty 2Kitty 2 Posts: 5,150
    The foliage in Emma's photo certainly does look like a chaemoneles but I've never seen purple fruits like that on one. Can't see anything online either.

    Have just been out for a look at mine and the developing fruits are currently small and green, they turn yellow into autumn. I noticed slight 'ridges' on them but nothing as pronounced as the purple ones shown.


    Apologies for the blurry photo.

    I hope this mystery is solved. 
  • Kitty 2Kitty 2 Posts: 5,150
    Cut open one of the little ones for an inside view of the 'segments' on mine.


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