Ive a tree in the garden, thats got lots of fruit on it.
I dont want to just randomly eat it and then curl up and die so thought I would quiz you guys...
heres the tree...
and heres a close up of the fruit...
It looks like a Cherry or a Plum tree, but ive no idea.
Thanks
p.s Ive tried some of the tree indentification things online but no luck
[Edited on 25/8/11 by MikeFellows]
Looks like a cherry (purple-leaf) plum tree to me...
that looks like a reasonable assumption from the pics on google
can i eat them then, or will i curl up and die? 
thanks by the way
You won't die! They should be ripe around this time of year, so bash on!
*assuming it is a cherry plum of course!
tell you what, I will go eat one, if you dont see me post for a week or so asking some random noob question, take it that it wasnt a cherry plum and
ive died
Thanks
Will do! 
whoa that was close....
its definatley not a plum or a cherry
it has multiple small pips and is quite hard (like an apple)
see...
they look tasty though
and as it has multiple seeds it become a berry tree apparently
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Looks like the 'Purple Berry of Death' to me.
Should be fine!
Stu
ok i tried a bit
they are really quite disgusting..
maybe they are not ripe yet, but they look it and its late August so i would have thought they would be
My Mum has something similar in her garden - she says it's an ornamental crab apple of some sort and the fruit is not for eating if that helps at
all
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she says it's an ornamental crab apple of some sort and the fruit is not for eating if that helps at all
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Originally posted by mookaloid
My Mum has something similar in her garden - she says it's an ornamental crab apple of some sort and the fruit is not for eating if that helps at all
Crab apple. Make some jam with them and blackberries.
Make some jam and sell it as home made if you won't have it yourself
woohoo - i've got one of them in my garden and have often wondered what it is.
Make Crab Apple and Chilli Jelly. Great with meat and nicer than jam.
http://www.cottagesmallholder.com/hot-crab-apple-and-chilli-jelly-recipe-2-470
Cherries are finished by now and the bird would have cleared the lot and only produce one seed.
Most Plums are only begining to ripen now, but like thier near relations the Cherry only produce one seed. Plums have a distinctive feature
like a "bum crack" which disappears when they are fully ripe.
Looks like a flowering Crab apple to me the five lobes at the bottom of the fruit and the multiple seeds are the clue ----- mine is a green
produces fruit slightly larger than my thumb. Crab apples are edible (but sour) as already said can be used to make crab apple jelly but they are
mainly planted either because they look great or as pollinators for other apple trees. To produce eating apples two other varieties of apple are
required as pollinator.
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Plums just beginning to ripen now?! Oh, I see, you are in Glasgow...! Down south, our tree (which has been amazingly covered in very tasty plums) is just about cleared of fruit now.. amazing the difference a few hundred miles can make!
Ive a Damsen Tree also, none left now, they ripened about 6 weeks ago, we ate them all though
made jam with those last year, gave many tubs away, still got one in the fridge unopened
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If you don't fancy jam what about some cider ...
I dont think I have enough to make cider, though if I did I would certainly give it a go
My plum trees --- three different varieties are only starting to blush I expect the first crop next week not as good a crop as last year when
one Victoria produced an amazing number of plums at least 700 perhaps twice that all the friends neighbours were getting dailly bags of pums this
year iIf I get a total of 400 plums off 6 trees I will be well happy.
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Originally posted by MikeFellows
Ive a Damsen Tree also, none left now, they ripened about 6 weeks ago, we ate them all though
made jam with those last year, gave many tubs away, still got one in the fridge unopened
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The tree's name is 'Issobella'. Apparently the French police have had a missing persons warrant and an arrest warrant out for her for
the last 62 years, when she was last seen climbing over a garden wall in a little village on the seinne after mugging her previous owner for stealing
her fruit early and not making jam out of it.
Crab apples make great wine.
... has your bum fallen off yet Mike?
Lol, I only ate a little bit of one and it was pretty rank
still alive though
... not even a cheek?