Posted by Amos Nomore on May 8, 2010, 5:26 pm
> I could not figure out how to start a new thread, so I'll post my query
> here. I have a fruiting tree in my yard.. this is the first year since
> I moved here that fruit has appeared. I've lived here 3 years. I've
> tried the online tree identifiers but they can't narrow it down. A lot
> of the results bring me close to the persimmon family but the fruit is
> not persimmon... I'm pretty sure.
>
> The fruit itself at this stage is small, about the size of a cherry
> tomato. The skin is soft and fuzzy. The fruit is globe shaped for the
> most part, some of them looking a little bit more like a young pear.
> When cross sectioned, there is a relatively thin band of light colored
> fruit with a pentagon shaped seed cluster center. Each of the 5
> sections of the pentagon appear to have clusters of elongated
> bean-shaped seeds in them.
>
> The foliage is somewhat varied. There are long shoots coming up from
> the ground with simple, alternating, smooth, oval shaped leaves tapering
> to a dull point. Some places have clusters of shoots coming out with
> irregularly distributed leaves. There are shoots with leaves, and then
> there are branches with shoots with leaves with branches with leaves as
> well. The undersides of some leaves are fuzzy, while others are not.
> The edges of some leaves are wavy while some are not. 80% of the leaves
> are more or less perfectly formed with some small portion of the leaves
> forming damaged like a lobe or something. The veins grow out from a
> central vein and toward teh edges of the leaves appear broken up like
> dried mud. or a network of busy city streets. The trunk is smooth
> mostly with lots of round bumpy spots where either it was pruned or who
> knows what. These silvery/black bees really like this tree at certain
> times of the year.
>
> The fruit currently resembles young apricot right now, but I know it is
> not because of the seed pockets inside. I have some pictures that can
> be viewed here:
>
> 'Pictures by emhartain - Photobucket' (http://tinyurl.com/2wnumkf )
>
> Any information you can give me would be much appreciated.
>
Bears some resemblance to medlar.
Posted by Doug Vernon on May 9, 2010, 1:26 am
Amos Nomore;886653 Wrote:
> In article Doug.Vernon.65b7387@gardenbanter.co.uk,
> Doug Vernon Doug.Vernon.65b7387@gardenbanter.co.uk wrote:
> -
> I could not figure out how to start a new thread, so I'll post my
> query
> here. I have a fruiting tree in my yard.. this is the first year
> since
> I moved here that fruit has appeared. I've lived here 3 years. I've
> tried the online tree identifiers but they can't narrow it down. A
> lot
> of the results bring me close to the persimmon family but the fruit is
> not persimmon... I'm pretty sure.
>
> The fruit itself at this stage is small, about the size of a cherry
> tomato. The skin is soft and fuzzy. The fruit is globe shaped for
> the
> most part, some of them looking a little bit more like a young pear.
> When cross sectioned, there is a relatively thin band of light colored
> fruit with a pentagon shaped seed cluster center. Each of the 5
> sections of the pentagon appear to have clusters of elongated
> bean-shaped seeds in them.
>
> The foliage is somewhat varied. There are long shoots coming up from
> the ground with simple, alternating, smooth, oval shaped leaves
> tapering
> to a dull point. Some places have clusters of shoots coming out with
> irregularly distributed leaves. There are shoots with leaves, and
> then
> there are branches with shoots with leaves with branches with leaves
> as
> well. The undersides of some leaves are fuzzy, while others are not.
> The edges of some leaves are wavy while some are not. 80% of the
> leaves
> are more or less perfectly formed with some small portion of the
> leaves
> forming damaged like a lobe or something. The veins grow out from a
> central vein and toward teh edges of the leaves appear broken up like
> dried mud. or a network of busy city streets. The trunk is smooth
> mostly with lots of round bumpy spots where either it was pruned or
> who
> knows what. These silvery/black bees really like this tree at certain
> times of the year.
>
> The fruit currently resembles young apricot right now, but I know it
> is
> not because of the seed pockets inside. I have some pictures that can
> be viewed he
>
> 'Pictures by emhartain - Photobucket' ('Pictures by emhartain -
> Photobucket'
(http://tinyurl.com/2wnumkf ))
>
> Any information you can give me would be much appreciated.
> -
> Bears some resemblance to medlar.
No, can't be that.. the leaves don't look right. The other suggestion
..
Quince.. may be a hit.. the leaves do look right and the fruit is
similar. I
guess I'll have to wait til the fruit ripens to get more
information for you.
--
Doug Vernon
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> here. I have a fruiting tree in my yard.. this is the first year since
> I moved here that fruit has appeared. I've lived here 3 years. I've
> tried the online tree identifiers but they can't narrow it down. A lot
> of the results bring me close to the persimmon family but the fruit is
> not persimmon... I'm pretty sure.
>
> The fruit itself at this stage is small, about the size of a cherry
> tomato. The skin is soft and fuzzy. The fruit is globe shaped for the
> most part, some of them looking a little bit more like a young pear.
> When cross sectioned, there is a relatively thin band of light colored
> fruit with a pentagon shaped seed cluster center. Each of the 5
> sections of the pentagon appear to have clusters of elongated
> bean-shaped seeds in them.
>
> The foliage is somewhat varied. There are long shoots coming up from
> the ground with simple, alternating, smooth, oval shaped leaves tapering
> to a dull point. Some places have clusters of shoots coming out with
> irregularly distributed leaves. There are shoots with leaves, and then
> there are branches with shoots with leaves with branches with leaves as
> well. The undersides of some leaves are fuzzy, while others are not.
> The edges of some leaves are wavy while some are not. 80% of the leaves
> are more or less perfectly formed with some small portion of the leaves
> forming damaged like a lobe or something. The veins grow out from a
> central vein and toward teh edges of the leaves appear broken up like
> dried mud. or a network of busy city streets. The trunk is smooth
> mostly with lots of round bumpy spots where either it was pruned or who
> knows what. These silvery/black bees really like this tree at certain
> times of the year.
>
> The fruit currently resembles young apricot right now, but I know it is
> not because of the seed pockets inside. I have some pictures that can
> be viewed here:
>
> 'Pictures by emhartain - Photobucket' (http://tinyurl.com/2wnumkf )
>
> Any information you can give me would be much appreciated.
>