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Clearly NOT a lemon tree!
David Phillips4
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Been waiting three years for lemons to appear! Guess this isn't a lemon tree! However I would like to identify it if possible. The image is of one detached twig with the seed pod at the bottom. Seed pods are barrel shaped, green, then red/orange then dried to black. Contains four brown seeds. Never noticed any flowers in spring. More of a mallow than a tree or shrub.
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Hi David
Any chance of a photo of the whole tree please?
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
It is a shrub or tree. Nothing mallow there
In the sticks near Peterborough
Hi dovefromabove I will take a pic of the whole thing tomorrow.
nutcutlet, I bow to your obviously superior intellect and accept that it cannot be a mallow
And pansyface I can assure you it is not a fruit, miserable or otherwise!
I look forward to seeing the bigger picture
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
This is all true Tetley
In the sticks near Peterborough
So this is a quince? I thought they produced pear like fruits?
Try googling 'wintersweet' -web page and images. UFEI website(ecosystem etc) has an image of the fruit which looks identical.
Chimonanthus praecox is the scientific name
good luck
That's the one
In the sticks near Peterborough
That looks like it Pia
http://smith.edu/gardens/bgilib/web/imageFrameset.php?latin_name=Chimonanthus+praecox+var.+grandiflorus&cat=3
What do you think David Phillips?
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.