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Main Discussion Area => Bows => Topic started by: lebhuntfish on August 07, 2017, 11:00:45 am

Title: Berry producing tree ID please.
Post by: lebhuntfish on August 07, 2017, 11:00:45 am

Not much to say but I just don't know what this is.  Ive tried looking it up online but I haven't found an exact match.  I guess I would like to know if these are edible as well.  Thanks!

Patrick

(http://i.imgur.com/JEiWrNS.jpg)

(http://i.imgur.com/pojAUFv.jpg)

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Title: Re: Berry producing tree ID please.
Post by: TacticalFate on August 07, 2017, 11:07:49 am

Looks like some variety of crabapple

Title: Re: Berry producing tree ID please.
Post by: DC on August 07, 2017, 12:33:07 pm

Cut one of the fruit crossways, see if it has a core like an apple. Looks like a Crab to me too.

Title: Re: Berry producing tree ID please.
Post by: Hawkdancer on August 07, 2017, 01:04:16 pm

Got to agree with Tac and DC.  It does take a bunch of them to make jelly, and or liqueur!  The other option is chokecherry, but I don' think so, Fruit isn't dark enough.
Hawkdancer

Title: Re: Berry producing tree ID please.
Post by: bushboy on August 07, 2017, 01:50:18 pm

Yes crabapple,that woody but  on the bottom is a dead give away

Title: Re: Berry producing tree ID please.
Post by: lebhuntfish on August 07, 2017, 04:19:33 pm

Thanks fellas! I wasn't sure what it was.  I just know there are a ton of them on the bush. 

Patrick

Title: Re: Berry producing tree ID please.
Post by: Mad Max on August 07, 2017, 04:29:57 pm

I have several Ornamental crabapple's in my yard.
looks the same

Title: Re: Berry producing tree ID please.
Post by: DC on August 07, 2017, 04:41:06 pm

If you can find a bow sized piece it makes a good bow.

Title: Re: Berry producing tree ID please.
Post by: lebhuntfish on August 07, 2017, 05:00:52 pm

I may do that DC,  bit I was thinking about all the arrows I see in it!

Patrick

Title: Re: Berry producing tree ID please.
Post by: sleek on August 07, 2017, 07:37:36 pm

I used to have a crab apple tree. I bit one when dared by my dad. Took me awhile to trust him after that. It is so bitter, bugs wont eat it. I always wanted to pick them, juice them, and use them as a bug repelant on the garden.

Title: Re: Berry producing tree ID please.
Post by: mikekeswick on August 08, 2017, 02:01:49 am

Crab apple makes the most beautiful jelly/jam. Loads of pectin too so it will set other fruits that won't set by themselves and masses of sugar. Yours is some sort of ornamental version.