I moved into a house and now in the summer one of the trees in the backyard is bearing some kind of fruit. I have no idea what it is. They look sort of like giant red grapes or plums. I uploaded photos of the fruits and the tree here (apologies for low-quality digital camera).
I concure that they look like plums. Prunes on the other hand do not grow on trees. Prunes are the result of drying plums.
Sherw> >I moved into a house and now in the summer one of the trees in the backyard
Some plums are called prunes even when not dried. Notice "capable of drying" in the Merriam-Webster entry:
Main Entry: 1prune Pronunciation: 'prün Function: noun Etymology: Middle English, from Middle French, plum, from Latin prunum
-- more at PLUM : a plum dried or capable of drying without fermentation
Paulo
Exactly, but the prunes are more oblong. I am pretty sure these are plums.
They are wonderful plums; I have 2 trees of them, canned 100 bottles last year :)
But only certain types of plums can become prunes, and prune plums do grow on trees.
Ok, I guess I did have an idea what they were after all. :)
It's just that I've always thought of plums as being very dark, maybe these are a different type or just not ripe yet? Thanks to everyone for your help.
There are many varieties. I've seen plums that ranged from medium red to almost black when ripe. And that doesn't even begin to include the plum-apricot crosses such a pluot and aprium and who-knows-what-sorta'-name-they'll-come-up-with-next.
Is a pluot different from a plumcot?
Charlie
Who can tell? There are so many crosses and re-crosses that it all gets pretty vague after a while. And given my luck growing fruit trees I doubt that I'll be experimenting on my own.
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