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what is it?

18 years ago

I have to assume its a fruit tree as its smack dab in the middle of my small orchard. It has flowered in the 3 seasons we have been at the house but never fruits so i am led to believe that it needs a polinator. There is the large tree as well as many smaller ones poping up from what i assume are rootstock. exact same flowers and bark. The orchard has plums, pears and apples and cherry so i assume its not one of them or it should cross polinate from my understanding.

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Comments (8)

  • 18 years ago

    IMO, it appears to be a European Plum (prune) of some sort. Like a Brooks or Italian.
    My biggest clue is that it is producing no fruit. *8^)

  • 18 years ago

    LOL, ok, so what can i do to encourage more fruit..... or any fruit for that matter?

  • 18 years ago

    Anyone else? would more pics or information be usefull?

    Thanks

  • 18 years ago

    It looks to me like an apricot tree, the bark's color/texture, blossom color, and tree height match up good. Apricots are very early bloomers and mine only set fruit 1 out of 5 years due to the buds/blossoms getting killed by frost.

    Googled apricot blooms:
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  • 18 years ago

    The leaves don't look like Apricot tree leaves, which have a more rounder shape.

  • 18 years ago

    afss:

    My guess is some type of sweet cherry. The bark and leaves say cherry to me, although there is considerable variation in leaf shape even among different sweet cherry varieties. Plum cannot be completely excluded, since some plum bark can easily be confused with cherry, but the long stems on the blossoms say cherry to me. Apricot leaves are generally heart shaped, so that possibility is excluded.

    Many sweet cherry varieties are difficult if not impossible to pollinate without a companion tree blooming in the same period, with compatible pollen. You mention having other cherry trees in your orchard, but not whether they are sweet or tart cherries. Tart cherry varieties will not pollinate sweet cherry trees.

    I would think if you could find the right companion sweet cherry for your tree, you could be growing a whale of a lot of sweet cherries.

    Don Yellman, Great Falls, VA

  • 18 years ago

    The other cherry trees are, i think, a sweet variety. You can easily eat them off the tree (if the birds don't beat you to them :P) Having said that i have never had a cherry that i have picked off a tree other than these ones so maybe they are tart.... actually i'd kinda call them neutral, they have a nice flavor but i wouldn't call it either sweet or tart so i always assumed they were sweet as i figure tart would be obviously sour like a chokecherry. This tree is planted directly beside a plumb tree and has a similar leaf structure although not identical. I guess maybe time will tell LOL I don't have a need to clear out the smaller ones yet so i will let them go for another season or two to try to figure out what they are and if they will produce eventually.

  • 18 years ago

    Yes, I drop my earlier apricot guess and agree with the cherry. I thought that having leaves with the blossoms was odd, usually the apricot blooms first then followed by leaves.