Tree ID

North Carolina tree. Anyone know what it is? Owner says it looks like olives on it.

 

looks like some sorta oak any way u could get more pics like bark and what not

 

My first thought was Bradford Pear

 

I'll second what Chud said, Bradford Pear

 

I thought it was some type of oak myself. But no caps on the corns?
Another clue I mistakenly left out is they think it’s edible enough to eat. So I’m assuming soft.
I won’t bother asking for more pics. Friend of a friend whom I’m not particularly enamored with anyway. Thought it may be an easy answer. If they want to cut it down it’s no skin off my teeth.

 

A picture of the whole tree taken from a slight distance should help.

 

I looked up Bradford Pear. Close enough for me LOL Thanks folks!!

 

In NC it is invasive. My neighbors have them, so I have pears sprouting everywhere.

 

I scrounged some once two Winters ago. Didnt know what it was and FHC helped ID it.
Isaias job yielded more. Pretty sure its BP. Poor quality pics from flip phone.

 

Some kind of flowering pear with tiny worthless fruit .
Many of these "non-fruit bearing" flowering pears actually do have fruit, they're just very small and the seeds are sterile. Or used to be.
Bradford pear were supposed to be sterile as they were clones and/or clones on root stocks.
But Bradford pears have crotch damage issues when they age so new cultivars without the crotch problems have been introduced.
Unfortunately, other cultivars have been introduced and provide breeding material for those "sterile" Bradford pears and for each other.
So now flowering pears are coming up all over.

I have a Cleveland Select pear which most certainly does not have the Winter/weather damage problem Bradford Pears are notorious for, but whatever they used for a rootstock ( it is a grafted tree) has an awful root sucker problem now that the tree is almost 20 years old. I have a feeling even if I cut the tree down the root will persist for some time via the suckers that survive at lawn mower height.

No more engineered trees for me. I'll plant what grows around here naturally. They can always be cut down and start over if/when they get too big /whatever.

 

I looked it up. Not even good for smoking. Not many friends of the old Bradford Pear

 

Bradford pears make excellent firewood and when pruned properly have decent longevity within my area. I think the tree has however been deemed as an invasive species due to a high proliferation rate that competes with native vegetation. I am fully on board with billb3 in saying no more engineered trees for me. Believe me, I have a list. At the top Leyland Cypress. SMH