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Produce => Edible Plants => Topic started by: RenishawPhil on July 15, 2011, 12:09:50

Title: Could some identify this tree please
Post by: RenishawPhil on July 15, 2011, 12:09:50
Am not sure if its a plum/damson on greengage tree.  It just grow on its own accord! :D

(http://i1191.photobucket.com/albums/z480/notts_phil/IMAG00521.jpg)

(http://i1191.photobucket.com/albums/z480/notts_phil/IMAG0053.jpg)
Title: Re: Could some identify this tree please
Post by: goodlife on July 15, 2011, 13:50:55
Looks like lemons to me.. ;) ;D
Difficult to say but my 'money' is for plum/greengage. They fruit looks too big to be damson.
Looks good what ever it turns out to be..hopefully they taste nice too.
Is it on your plot?
Title: Re: Could some identify this tree please
Post by: RenishawPhil on July 15, 2011, 14:02:23
Quote from: goodlife on July 15, 2011, 13:50:55
Looks like lemons to me.. ;) ;D
Difficult to say but my 'money' is for plum/greengage. They fruit looks too big to be damson.
Looks good what ever it turns out to be..hopefully they taste nice too.
Is it on your plot?

No its at the back of garden near our pond:)
Title: Re: Could some identify this tree please
Post by: Spudbash on July 15, 2011, 16:53:32
If the fruits are no larger than about 2.5cms when ripe, you've probably got a yellow cherry plum (myrobalan). They often grow in hedgerows and are spread by the birds and the ones in the hedgerows around here (Hampshire) are ripe now, although the time of ripening varies a bit.

Whatever they turn out to be, enjoy them!   ;D
Title: Re: Could some identify this tree please
Post by: Digeroo on July 15, 2011, 17:07:20
Quoteyou've probably got a yellow cherry plum (myrobalan).

Can also be called a mirabelle.  Lovely.  Comes in red as well.
Title: Re: Could some identify this tree please
Post by: Unwashed on July 15, 2011, 18:00:58
Difficult to tell the scale exactly, but it looks like a yellow plum to me.  Myrobalans (cherry plums) tend to cluster like cherries and their leaves are smaller too, whereas the fruit here looks plum-sized.
Title: Re: Could some identify this tree please
Post by: saddad on July 15, 2011, 19:11:17
Fruit looks round enough to be a "Golden Gage" (Oullins?)  :)
Title: Re: Could some identify this tree please
Post by: RenishawPhil on July 25, 2011, 19:31:55
Well they are lovely whatever they are !
Title: Re: Could some identify this tree please
Post by: darkbrowneggs on July 25, 2011, 19:52:33
My Yellow Mirabelle is ready just now, and there are far fewer fruits on mine than normal this year.  The taste is pleasant, not quite as bland as an egg plum, but nowhere near as nice as my purple Mirabelle which is fruiting also, and with a massive crop.

All the best
Sue