I've kept thinking about those pods sure I've seen something like them before, could it be Ceratonia siliqua ? Carob tree. Don't know about it growing in U.K. but it is frost hardy, bad news it can grow to 49 feet. Maybe someone grew if from pods from their hols.
Thanks for all the suggestions. I am awaiting a better picture of the mystery tree and it's fruit. Will post as soon as I receive it. It certainly has me befuddled checked every book I have ( and that is a LOT of books) will check the suggestions made and let you know how I get on the mystery continues for now!
If it's in a nice sheltered micro-climate in London in a nice sunny spot, exotic fruit trees do surprisingly well, and if the temps are good enough produce quite crop. Considering the ethnic diversity of London, it's not a leap of the imagination to think of a summer party and someone discarding a stone in the garden, or even planting one to see if it would grow. The picture in the first post looks remarkably like young fruits developing, my first thought was maybe cashew, or mango, but the foliage looks too different, so perhaps is the North American paw paw.
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I've kept thinking about those pods sure I've seen something like them before, could it be Ceratonia siliqua ? Carob tree. Don't know about it growing in U.K. but it is frost hardy, bad news it can grow to 49 feet. Maybe someone grew if from pods from their hols.
Thanks for all the suggestions. I am awaiting a better picture of the mystery tree and it's fruit. Will post as soon as I receive it. It certainly has me befuddled checked every book I have ( and that is a LOT of books) will check the suggestions made and let you know how I get on the mystery continues for now!
very intriguing!
Rough guess I'd go for PawPaw
http://www.thompson-morgan.com/fruit/fruit-trees/exotic-fruit-trees/pawpaw/dww3678TM
If it's in a nice sheltered micro-climate in London in a nice sunny spot, exotic fruit trees do surprisingly well, and if the temps are good enough produce quite crop. Considering the ethnic diversity of London, it's not a leap of the imagination to think of a summer party and someone discarding a stone in the garden, or even planting one to see if it would grow. The picture in the first post looks remarkably like young fruits developing, my first thought was maybe cashew, or mango, but the foliage looks too different, so perhaps is the North American paw paw.
itsnotmyfault - peanuts grow underground, in the roots of the plant, or so I'm lead to believe. As to the tree - no idea, it is intriguing!
No luck so far still waiting on a better picture!
Is this a current pic marsboyle or something taken last summer?
Doesn't look like a catalpa to me. The leaves don't look right and it flowers and therefore has beans in clusters not in ones
In the sticks near Peterborough
It looks like a Pongamia tree, but I didn't know it grew in this country.
I'm betting on a hybrid broad bean tree then
Lordswood, just had a Google and it certainly looks like one..what's it doing in London?