What kind of tree is this (link)? Is this fruit edible?

Hello...

I'm curious what the tree in the follow pictures is:

Also...is the fruit edible?

Thank you,

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Zarlot531
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Looks like crabapple, if so, fruit is bitter.

Reply to
D. Staples

Ignore this fool

Reply to
Billy

Intriguing! I do not know, but it might help someone to know where it is growing and is it cultivated?

Peter

Reply to
Peter B

It is in Columbia, SC. at the house I'm living in.

Reply to
Zarlot531

Reply to
Sheldon

Ah, the wit and wisdom of a doper.

Reply to
Don Staples

Could be a variety of Quince. Is the plant in question a bit fuzzy ?

I have one just for the flowers. Once made quince jelly in the day.

Bill

Reply to
Bill

And that is as good as the advice gets from this maudlin, foul mouth of a loser.

Ignore this fool

Reply to
Billy

The foliage is not right for apple or pear, and does not look right for quince--far too glossy. Are the leaves alternate (one per node) or opposite (two per node)? In South Carolina, you might have any of a number of subtropical ornamentals, including Camellia, which makes an apple-like fruit.

M. Reed

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Reply to
monique

A few more questions--

Is there milky sap? Can you show us what th inside of the fruit looks like?

M. Reed

Reply to
monique

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So, what's the answer? Smartass!

Reply to
Frank

Looks like a Kiefer pear to me. That's a cross between the Chinese sand pear and Bartlett that is course grained and not very good eating fresh. They are excellent canned. Can while still firm because they never get really soft like a bartlett. It'll be another couple of months before they are ripe enough to can. We have eaten them for years. Picture at bottom of page:

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Reply to
Tom J

C. sasanqua. Even the blurred photo resembles a camellia bush. The fruit is not likely edible, but it is also not likely toxic.

Usually the flowers fall off without forming any fruit. If you allow the fruit to mature, the ripened seeds can be planted and might produce a new variety of camellia.

Young leaves of the closely related C. sinensis are the primary ingredient of commercial tea.

Reply to
David E. Ross

The leaves are alternatve. Also, yes, some of the fruits can be VERY milky. A few seem more dry, particularly the bigger ones.

Here are some pictures of the inside one of the larger ones:

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Reply to
Zarlot531

you'd've noticed big flowers and the occasional fruit would look more like an apple. Tempting to suggest the somewhat exotic Java Apple (Szyzygium samarangense) or some other species of Szyzygium. If that's it, the fruit are edible, taste like pear, but is much less dense than a pear when ripe, more like melon in texture.

-paghat the ratgirl

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paghat

Don't know. If I had to guess, I'd say a camellia. You'll notice that the leaves are glossy with a smooth edge. Crab apples have a serrated edge to their leaves. In my experience, you need to have leaf, flower, and fruit (seed) to make an identification.

Maudlin, foul-mouthed, people with a compulsion to cast someone else as more incompetent than themselves are easier to identify ;o)

Reply to
Billy

Do you have a picture of the flowers? The fruit looks somewhat like a pygmy pawpaw (Asimina pygmea), and you are in the right area for pygmy pawpaws, but the leaves aren't right. The pawpaw flowers however, are distinctive.

-Philip

Reply to
Philip Wright

Not pear for sure, so forget what I posted!

Tom J

Reply to
Tom J

That fruit almost loooks like mangosteen.

You can peruse the California Rare Fruit Growers web site.

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Sheldon

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