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Just been to NT Buscot.  They have some fruit trees there, leaves like apples, trees have odd black lumps on trunk.  Fruit look like apples are are furry (a bit like a peach is furry) but hard like a apple.

Anyone know what it it?  Fruit not big enough to be a quince.  Leaves not like cydonia, anyway they are trees.

Not got open end like medlar.

Quote from: Digeroo on September 11, 2016, 18:07:52
Just been to NT Buscot.  They have some fruit trees there, leaves like apples, trees have odd black lumps on trunk.  Fruit look like apples are are furry (a bit like a peach is furry) but hard like a apple.

Anyone know what it it?  Fruit not big enough to be a quince.  Leaves not like cydonia, anyway they are trees.

Not got open end like medlar.

without a pic its hard to tell however i think a quince is more likely the fruit in question

Sorry did not get a pic, but just like small apple but furry.  Very small for a quince. 

Asian Pear possibly? Not exactly what I would call furry though.

My vote also for a quince. The fruit on mine is apple-sized & shaped - there are many many varieties.

It could be a Medlar, they are apple shape, furry, and have a splayed out blossom end.

I am sure it is not a medlar.  Did not have the open end.  They were simply furry apples.  For me a quince is smooth.  Then there are the Cydonia quinces which are a little furry but the leaf is different.

This had an apple leaf.

I think I will have to go back and ask what they are.  There were no gardeners around on sunday. 

Never seen anything like them before.

Quote from: Digeroo on September 12, 2016, 17:36:02
I am sure it is not a medlar.  Did not have the open end.  They were simply furry apples.  For me a quince is smooth.  Then there are the Cydonia quinces which are a little furry but the leaf is different.

This had an apple leaf.

I think I will have to go back and ask what they are.  There were no gardeners around on sunday. 

Never seen anything like them before.

great please let me know what it was

Tracked down the gardener who was most helpful.  They are indeed quince but the weather conditions early in the year did not favour them and the fruit are considerably smaller than they should be.  The trees are very old, they think 50 but I think may be more. 
Personally I think they need feeding. One of my plot neighbour is Polish and she immediately gave the apples on her plot a good lot of manure and a mulch of straw the results have been spectacular.  So I have been feeding my apple trees in my front garden, again the results are spectacular and the apples are huge even from quite small trees.  I have never thought of the need to feed fruit trees.  I suppose in the olden days pigs would have been put under apples trees to clear up the droppages.  Gets rid of any insects as well.