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What is this please?

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  • nutcutletnutcutlet Posts: 27,445

    Yes they do Jo. 

    Blowing a gale againimage

    Very still hereimage I had a gardening day. Mowed some, weeded some, looked at the unbelievable amount of weeds still there, had a glass of wineimage



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  • nutcutletnutcutlet Posts: 27,445

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  • nutcutletnutcutlet Posts: 27,445

    I was pretty confident it was somewhere in Rosaceae when I gave it the taste test Tetley, I'm not as daft as I lookimage

    But even my tiny Malus baccata have an apple taste to them and I couldn't detect it. Not ripe yet though so maybe will develop



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  • artjakartjak Posts: 4,167

    Nut certainly isn't daft...and doesn't look it eitherimage

  • nutcutletnutcutlet Posts: 27,445

    Thank you artjakimage 

     



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  • LiriodendronLiriodendron Posts: 8,328

    Aronia berries are more bunched than that, I think - and are extremely tart even when ripe, when they're black.

    I'd go for Crataegus myself - though if Nut didn't recognise it, maybe I'm wrong - I reckon you're the ace plant detective on this forum...  image

    I found Crataegus x Lavalleei on the Net, which is supposed to have very few thorns, orange-red berries and leaves similar to your photo.  I think there are lots of hybrid hawthorns and regional variations, too.

    Since 2019 I've lived in east Clare, in the west of Ireland.
  • nutcutletnutcutlet Posts: 27,445

    I'm not really a detective Liri, I've seen a lot of plants and recognise them but I'm as lost as anyone else when I don't recognise one.

    The owners of this one will be visiting me soon, I'll ask them to bring a branch with them for further investigation, or maybe some seed if it's ready.

    Inside, the one I chewed wasn't like a crataegus. It was more 'fruity'



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  • LiriodendronLiriodendron Posts: 8,328

    That would be good, Nut.  If you can dissect a fruit it might give more clues... did you mean the fruit had more flesh than a crataegus, or that it tasted more like an edible fruit?  You said you didn't think it was a Malus though.  Did fruit or leaves smell of anything?

    I hate not being able to work it out...  image  ...used to love plant IDs at college.  image

    Since 2019 I've lived in east Clare, in the west of Ireland.
  • nutcutletnutcutlet Posts: 27,445

    Juicier Liri, the hawthorns I know are all dryish, though there are lots I don't know.



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  • nutcutletnutcutlet Posts: 27,445

    Yes it does Tetley, I don't know Toringo. I'll have a google.

    The plant is drifting out of my mind now, I can't see it clearly any more (except in the pic)



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