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Can anyone identify this fruit tree?
I recently took on an allotment with this large tree in the middle. Everyone suggests I chop it down and no one can really identify what it is.
It was in full blossom and is now fruiting, some fruits showing initial signs of ripening so very early. It's almost cherry like. It has thorns on the old wood.
Has anyone got any suggestions what it may be? Thanks in advance!
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Hi Edam. It could be a plum. These are often grafted onto blackthorn stock and if some suckers have been thrown out from the bottom then they will have the thorns of the blackthorn - mine has done this
If it is old enough the blackthorn fruit - sloes - may have formed.
Or it might be a bullace
https://www.orangepippintrees.co.uk/damson-trees/shepherds-bullace
Traditionally grown around allotments and gardens in Suffolk (don't know about elsewhere) - a hardy small tree with fruit which is sort of a cross between a plum and a cherry in taste and appearance ... lovely for tarts and pies, and if you've never tasted home made bullace wine you've not lived
I'd wait and see how the fruit develops and then decide what to do.
Last edited: 22 April 2017 09:21:02
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Thanks for the responses guys. Weirdly in the last week the fruits have e both ripened and started to shrivel, very strange.
They look like this. They have a sort of fruity date/prune like smell to them. I'm loathe to taste one till I know what it is!
Any ideas now theve ripened? Thanks!
