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Self Seeded Tree
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Any ideas what this tree is? I cut it back a bit today and took a picture of it and the little unripe fruit which fell off a branch. It almost looks like a cherry. Could it be a wild cherry or cherry plum?
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Cherry plum I think.
In the sticks near Peterborough
Cherry Tree.
Thanks Nut. Last year it had one or two tiny ripened yellow fruit the size of a conventional cherry but this seems a bit bigger which made me wonder if it was a cherry plum.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cherry_plum
Scroll down and click on the picture of unripe fruit - it should zoom in for you - the fruit looks like your picture.
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Dove and Nut have done it again!! Spot on. Thanks.
The narrative also says that the fruit can ripen to yellow which fits perfectly.
Jolly good for jam
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I might be wrong, not the first time
but does it sucker and spread over a large area? Might not be what we've been battling up the road but looks like it.
KEF. Yes it does
Mine ripen to red.
In the sticks near Peterborough
That's an interesting point Kef as this cherry plum is right next door to a now dead Trailblazer plum. I had discounted the fact that it might be a sucker off the old Trailblazer as that had red fruit and red leaves and pink blossom, unlike this that has green leaves, white blossom and yellow fruit - interesting though.
A sucker would come from the rootstock rather than the named variety
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