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Fruit Identification - Crab Apple?
Posted: February 27th, 2021, 11:51 am
by Daluke
I’m after an identification on the following fruit.
It’s about as big as an olive fruit.
Has some apple like seeds inside - I imagine it’s a crab apple of some type?
Thanks!!!
Re: Fruit Identification - Crab Apple?
Posted: February 27th, 2021, 12:40 pm
by GavinG
It looks like what I get on Malus "Floribunda" - other crab fruit is usually larger, with more of them.
Gavin
Re: Fruit Identification - Crab Apple?
Posted: February 27th, 2021, 1:08 pm
by KIRKY
Do you have any pictures of the flowers? There are a few that produce yellow fruit. Malus Sargentii is another.
Cheers
Kirky
Re: Fruit Identification - Crab Apple?
Posted: February 27th, 2021, 1:13 pm
by Daluke
Negative - will have to wait until spring. This is from a tree from the ‘hood.
About 2 x 4 m.
Re: Fruit Identification - Crab Apple?
Posted: February 27th, 2021, 1:42 pm
by shibui
Certainly looks like a crab apple and fruits are just ripening now but there could be a few other things with similar fruit. One of the characteristics of apple is the arrangement of seeds inside the fruit. When cut across there is a distinct 5 sided star pattern.
Pics of leaves, leaf arrangement (opposite or alternate), bark and the overall tree shape would also add clues to the ID.