I.D this fruit?

[WolfeMacleod]

There's a couple trees near my local post office that's loaded with these things. Starting to turn a dark red.
They look like some sort of apple, but I can't find any apple breeds that look anything like them.
About an inch long. They didn't get any bigger last year.

What the heck are these?

[Rick V]

Crab apple?

[rcecale]

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Originally Posted by widebody911

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[WolfeMacleod]

Originally Posted by Rick V

Crab apple?

That's what I originally though when I saw them last year, but they aren't apple-round at all. They didn't look like any of the crab apple pics I looked up last year. Too elongated.

[Joe Bob]

Could be a juvenile Pomegranate that isn't getting enough nutrients.

[genrex]

^^^ I don't know why, but that post is really funny!

[M.D. Holloway]

Take a bite, see what they taste like.

[latroz]

persimmons

[herr_oberst]

Jean Simmons

[pavulon]

immature Richard Simmons.

[mikesride]

Looks like an ornamental crabapple...total PITA, cut down a similar tree in my back yard three years ago, best thing ever!!! They are beautiful for about a day or two when they bloom, white and or pink blossoms cover the entire tree until the first 10mph wind. Then about 20,000.00 tiny little inedible "apples" fall to the ground everyday for what seems to be about three months of your summer season.....

[Baz]

Originally Posted by Rick V

Crab apple?

I'm not up on the trees in the PNW but think Rick nailed it.

Crabapple Varieties for the Pacific Northwest

You could always contact a local garden center - or local university horticulture dept. for confirmation.

[rwest]

I think you can use a leaf and a chart to figure it out- did it in grade school.

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[WolfeMacleod]

Originally Posted by LubeMaster77

Take a bite, see what they taste like.

Definitely some sort of apple. Sour, which I like in apple.
Unfortunately, too small to eat, really.

Fortunately, we found a park last year not too far from us with a couple apple trees off the beaten path. Last year, they were LOADED with smallish apples, but we didn't notice them till pretty late in the year. We got a couple though, and they were good.

[gshase]

how about a Chinese apple or Jujube. I grow them and sell them in Vietnamese markets. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jujube

[cantdrv55]

Looks like guava

[rusnak]

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[Joe Bob]

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[TR]

Malus sylvestris , possibly. I may be incorrect given I haven't examined the sample or seen the tree.

There are a lot of ornamental cultivars being developed by the horticultural industry now that they can register the forms under Plant Variety Right laws which give them entitlement to royalties for every plant sold.
My guess is it is a form of “malus” (apple family), it has the tell tail smooth lamina on the top of the leaf and the semi pubescent underside. “Pyrus” (pears) tend to have smooth lamina on both sides, prominent lenticels and zigzag appearance of the twigs between leaf nodes and the fruiting spurs can be quite sharp like a thorn. “Sorbus”(crab apples) fruit is round in groups and have compound leaves.

Apples and pears are closely related and no doubt someone is at work trying to make a Frankenstein Pear X apple as we speak which will produce its own insecticide to kill codling moth.
I attached some web pages FYI.




malus sylvestris - Google Search
malus sylvestris - Google Search

malus sylvestris - Google Search