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I don’t want to burn it

Discussion in 'The Wood Pile' started by Sandhillbilly, May 15, 2019.

  1. Sandhillbilly

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    i just wanna know what it is. Smells wonderful in blossoms. Has never had any fruit on it in the 4 years I’ve lived here, nor evidence on the ground of ever having any. Seems like it should be an apple or crab apple. It’s in my front yard 2B3B246C-95AA-41CB-8232-A4965F8346BD.jpeg 00733D17-6548-49F9-B014-5B62D5766970.jpeg E6C87B65-0F36-4C25-B39F-1DB3ED118722.jpeg AA246764-F699-4592-8CE5-DE2376AC520D.jpeg 2B03ACB6-7E91-4796-8FFF-0471276A61EB.jpeg
     
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    Not sure, may be some sort of cherry??? My mom had a pink weeping cherry in her yard. The flowers were similar but pink.
     
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    That is gorgeous!! Fruitless crabappple? Oh boy, sitting under there with an iced tea, swimming in the sweet fragrance. :drool:
     
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    It may be that there is no other pollinator for the tree so if it is not self pollenating it will remain sterile until another is available to "knock it up".
     
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    The ornamental cherries i’ve seen have distinctive horizontal bands in the bark, which eventually give way to dark, rough bark. It doesn’t look like cherry to me.
     
  6. Sandhillbilly

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    Kinda what I’ve been figuring. I really think it’s an apple of some sort
     
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    I have a lot of "Pin Cherry" trees around me here, and many wild Cherrys also. It "really" looks like a pin cherry. If it's not, it's in the crab apple family. Beautiful tree either way! :) I'm definitly guessing Cherry.
     
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    Might just be an ornamental cherry and will never bear any fruit.
     
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    I am thinking some type of plum.
     
  10. Dakota Hoarder

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    Looks like a really old snow crab to me. Either way save all the branches when you trim it for smoking or grilling.
     
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    looks similar to my neighbors plum tree he gets about 3 plums a year but for about five days a year it smells delightful!
     
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    The leaves look like some kind of Apple to me, my grandparents had an orchard here when I was a kid. The leaves look familiar.
     
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    It's some kind of a cherry imo.
     
  15. MikeInMa

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    I'd not burn it, and enjoy it for it's shade shade fragrance.
     
  16. Sandhillbilly

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    That’s exactly my plan, just curious as to what it was. Would kinda like to have another one just like it
     
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