Cherry tree.....maybe?

[bagnally]

Does anyone know of a tree that has the characteristics of a cherry tree but isn't? My sister has a tree in her garden that has all the characteristics of a cherry but the fruit is quite hard and orangery red in colour. The bark isn't typical of the cherry family though.

I'd put a picture on here but there is no option to do so. The tree has quite a lot of fruit on it at the moment

[tracy]

Hi Bagnally

If you like you could send a picture to [email protected] and he can put a picture up for you - or upload it to flikr and put a link up

best wishes

Tracy

[Keith Williams]

We've got ornamental cherries (I think that's what they are) in the street - the local foxes seem to be eating the cherries, their scat on our lawn is full of little stones!

[MartreCycle]

I have gone with the fact the "fruit is quite hard and orangery red in colour"

How about:

http://www.wildlifetrusts.org/species/common-whitebeam

I have discounted Rowan

[Henrietta]

I'm wondering bagnally if your tree is a wild or mirabelle plum. The fruits can look just like cherries, through colours from red to orange and yellow, and the same size as cherries.

[carlight]

or cherry plum ? (flowers v early like blackthorn , similar leaves)

( ok- just checked in a book , and what i call cherry plum is also known as 'myrobalan' plum - so have just duplicated the above post ,soz )

think i may refrer to it as mirabelle ,from now on ,nice name .

[bagnally]

Thank you everyone. I will send a picture Tracey and also look up the website MartreCycle.

[splodger]

it could be a type of wild plum - but my guess would be an ornamental crab apple - the fruits can be very small (and cherry like) the leaf on some is similar to cherry also

the fruits are not edible - if an ornamental crab

[Rich]

Here's a pic of the Fruit and leaf,

https://picasaweb.google.com/108035491038199654438/FruitID?authkey=Gv1sRgCNrMz9q9xLfbBw

Thre's also a good id site called http://www.ispot.org.uk/ think it's funded by the open university. We've used it for all manner of creepy crawlys, plants and trees.

[bagnally]

Thanks for doing this Rich.