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Tree identification
Enez Bosley
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Hello,
Can anyone help me identify the attached tree. It does not flower but has produced large, what looks like berries. Would welcome some help.
Thank you.
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I think it may be a crab apple?
I think it must have flowered when you weren't looking. You don't get fruit without flowers.
In the sticks near Peterborough
Thank you both for the replies. The tree did not produce large pods/apples last year. Is it the right time of year for the tree to be producing apples?
I am fairly new to gardening, so any help is gratefully received.
Thank you Welshonion.
Hi Enez, some of the crab apples hang on to the fruit all winter
In the sticks near Peterborough
..one of these I should think, but wouldn't know which, but just to give the correct names...
Malus 'John Downie', 'Red Sentinel' or 'Red Jade'... if you want to look those up...
It may be Malus (crab-apple) Red Sentinel
there's some info here-
https://www.rhs.org.uk/Plants/45895/Malus-x-robusta-Red-Sentinel/Details
Lovely tree - it'll be smothered in flowers next spring
Billericay - Essex
Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit.
Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
Crab apple, definitely. Makes lovely jelly - if a bit fiddly to do - but great for small Christmas gifts. However, you do not have to peel and pip them to do so so you save lots of time there. If you don't want to do that, leave the fruit on and, if we get a good hard January with lots of frost, you'll get lots of fieldfares and they'll strip the whole lot within 48 hours!