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Need help identifying trees

  • 21-03-2016 7:49pm
    #1
    mortimer33
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 135 ✭✭


    Hello everyone,

    Would love some help in identifying a couple of trees. The first 3 photographs show a tree at the end of my garden and the 4th is of a tree on the other side of the wall. The flowers look similar - just different color leaves. The tree on the other side of the wall is lot bigger than the one on my side. I hope they're clear enough !

    tree1.JPG

    tree2.JPG

    tree3.JPG

    tree4.JPG

    Thanks in advance..


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  • #2
    lk67
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 477 ✭✭lk67


    mortimer33 wrote: »
    Hello everyone,

    Would love some help in identifying a couple of trees. The first 3 photographs show a tree at the end of my garden and the 4th is of a tree on the other side of the wall. The flowers look similar - just different color leaves. The tree on the other side of the wall is lot bigger than the one on my side. I hope they're clear enough !

    tree1.JPG

    tree2.JPG

    tree3.JPG

    tree4.JPG

    Thanks in advance..

    Hi there,

    The first looks like an Almond (Prunus dulcis) and the other is a Purple Plum (Prunus cerasifera 'Nigra')


  • #3
    mortimer33
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 135 ✭✭mortimer33


    Thanks lk67! Very much appreciated. Didn't see any fruit on either tree last year. I'll probably need to plant some companion trees to get them to fruit.


  • #4
    lk67
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 477 ✭✭lk67


    mortimer33 wrote: »
    Thanks lk67! Very much appreciated. Didn't see any fruit on either tree last year. I'll probably need to plant some companion trees to get them to fruit.

    The Purple Plum is only ornamental and won't have any significant fruit.

    Almonds - if it is one - don't crop well in this country and are prone to frost damaging the flowers, meaning no fruit.


  • #5
    mortimer33
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 135 ✭✭mortimer33


    Just a quick followup to this thread.

    The tree in the first 3 photos in the first post has started to fruit (see pic below). Judging by the red fruit it doesn't look like an Almond (Prunus dulcis) tree? I would appreciate some help in identifying it.

    IMG_20160503_085030088.jpg


  • #6
    lk67
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 477 ✭✭lk67


    Ok, so the fruit is too shiny to be an almond and the leaves are wrong. You might need to wait until the fruit develop and colour up and post a photo again, it's definitely the Prunus family anyway.

    The funny red fruit is pocket plum disease. More info here:

    https://www.rhs.org.uk/advice/profile?PID=199


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  • #7
    mortimer33
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 135 ✭✭mortimer33


    Quick Update. Fruit is starting to color now. The fruit that turned red seemed to die/disappear. The remaining fruit turned green and now yellow.Pics attached. I squashed one and it smells like a plum. It has a little stone inside. At this stage I think it may be either a Mirabelle or a Golden Sphere Cherry Plum.

    Golden Sphere Cherry Plum


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