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Posted by Staycalm on November 21, 2007, 11:54 pm
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ornamental plum (Prunus L.) Fruit is small and quite sour skin but ok flesh. We loved
them as kids.
Liz
> There's a tree I've seen growing on nature strips and parks. In size
> and shape it could pass as a plum tree, and its leaf size and shape
> and density of foliage is very similar to that of the plum, too. But
> this tree has distinctive red leaves, a very dark red. And right now
> it is fruiting, the fruit resembles a dark cherry only it is egg-shaped
> instead of being round. I have broken one open and it contains a red
> stone about the size of a cherry stone, within crisp flesh just like
> a cherry that's not yet ripe.
>
> I haven't seen any sign of the fruit having been sampled by birds, so
> maybe it is not edible or just not yet ripe.
>
> Anyone know the tree's name?
>
> (For the jokesters: I am quite sure it's not Fred, nor Joan, nor Myrtle!)
> --
> John Savage (my news address is not valid for email)
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