Plant people, another tree identification question

[00clone]

Mowing my lawn today, I noticed one of my trees has fruit on it. These were existing trees on a farm fencerow when we bought the property, so I doubt it was planted. The fruits themselves are about the size of a ping pong ball, resemble a nectarine in the skin, color, and they have that 'seam' along one side. Inside they do have a pit, but they almost have those cells like an orange has (not segmented, but the individual cells inside an orange segment), and the wife says they smell like an orange (my sniffer's not reliable due to my cold, but I kind of got some orange smell too). Tree itself is about 8' tall with trunks about 3" diameter.

I've never noticed fruit before this year, but we've only been here since 2012 and with the goofy weather we've had the last few years, and their small size, that doesn't mean they weren't there before or didn't come because of the weather.

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Anyone know what kind of tree this might be, and is it a native Iowa tree?

 

[Cychedelia]

Weird, looks like a nectarine but I dont know if those grow in Iowa.

 

[cmjh10]

It looks like a weird cross between apple, nectarine, and apricot

 

[FarminCy]

It appears to be a plumcot or called a pluot as well.

 

[00clone]

It appears to be a plumcot or called a pluot as well.

I considered that, did a little searching online, just wondering how it ended up in a farm fencerow.

 

[Acylum]

It looks like a weird cross between apple, nectarine, and apricot

An apptarinicot. Yes, that's it.

 

[Cyched]

So what do they taste like?

 

[00clone]

An apptarinicot. Yes, that's it.

You guys stay the **** out of my yard, I'm saving all these seeds and getting rich off my mutant apptarinicot.

 

[00clone]

So what do they taste like?

Didn't have the guts to eat an unknown fruit off an unknown tree in my yard, plus most of them had insect bites on them.

Side note, after I finished mowing the back yard and went to the front yard, my back yard was absolutely swarming with huge dragonflies. It looked like a scene from the birds, but it was dragonflies. To the extent that I got off the mower and went into the house to make sure the wife and kids got to see them.

 

[ImJustKCClone]

We have a small grove of wild plum trees that produce fruit about that size, and the deer LOVE them. If you have deer around your home, odds are you haven't noticed fruit before because the deer find them first.

 

[Cychedelia]

Didn't have the guts to eat an unknown fruit off an unknown tree in my yard, plus most of them had insect bites on them.

Side note, after I finished mowing the back yard and went to the front yard, my back yard was absolutely swarming with huge dragonflies. It looked like a scene from the birds, but it was dragonflies. To the extent that I got off the mower and went into the house to make sure the wife and kids got to see them.

First weird fruit, and now swarms of dragonflies? Time to move.

 

[00clone]

First weird fruit, and now swarms of dragonflies? Time to move.

Dude, I live near Iowa City, if weird fruit and dragonfly swarms is all I got, I'm doing good. A few years ago, there was the guy who was arrested and said he was being held hostage by people who were going to blow up a nuclear device by North Liberty, then a year or so, a guy on the Johnson county democrat planning committee or some such thing got arrested naked busting out car tail lights because "red means danger to the republic"...found that one:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/19/sean-c-flaherty-really-hates-color-red_n_3623588.html

 

[Cychedelia]

Dude, I live near Iowa City, if weird fruit and dragonfly swarms is all I got, I'm doing good. A few years ago, there was the guy who was arrested and said he was being held hostage by people who were going to blow up a nuclear device by North Liberty, then a year or so, a guy on the Johnson county democrat planning committee or some such thing got arrested naked busting out car tail lights because "red means danger to the republic"...found that one:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/19/sean-c-flaherty-really-hates-color-red_n_3623588.html

I live in Cedar Rapids, and know what you mean. So many crack heads, but surprisingly there are lots of ISU fans out here. Probably because of Rockwell Collins....

 

[CyPride]

Mowing my lawn today, I noticed one of my trees has fruit on it. These were existing trees on a farm fencerow when we bought the property, so I doubt it was planted. The fruits themselves are about the size of a ping pong ball, resemble a nectarine in the skin, color, and they have that 'seam' along one side. Inside they do have a pit, but they almost have those cells like an orange has (not segmented, but the individual cells inside an orange segment), and the wife says they smell like an orange (my sniffer's not reliable due to my cold, but I kind of got some orange smell too). Tree itself is about 8' tall with trunks about 3" diameter.

I've never noticed fruit before this year, but we've only been here since 2012 and with the goofy weather we've had the last few years, and their small size, that doesn't mean they weren't there before or didn't come because of the weather.

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Anyone know what kind of tree this might be, and is it a native Iowa tree?

wild plum. final answer.

http://www.extension.iastate.edu/forestry/iowa_trees/trees/wild_plum.html

 

[00clone]

wild plum. final answer.

Yeah, after researching from KC's suggestion, I think that's it. Should start gathering the seeds, the hippies my wife works with would eat that **** up.

 

[CyPride]

you might have stated this in the thread - i didn't read all your post - have you ate one? taste good?

 

[ImJustKCClone]

Here's a warning - when you eat them, put the whole plum in your mouth, bite down to break the skin & kind of suck the meat of the fruit off the skin, then spit out the skin. The fruit is deliciously sweet, the skin is bitter as all get out. Don't chew the skin!!!

 

[00clone]

you might have stated this in the thread - i didn't read all your post - have you ate one? taste good?

Nah, I thought they all had bug bites on them, but then I realized they were all on the opposite end of the stem, so prolly leftover bloom stuff. Like I said before, I wasn't going to eat something I didn't know what it was, but the missus stuck her fingertip in the flesh of one and tasted it, said it was sweet.

 

[cyclone101]

Yep. Wild Plums. Picked a handfull this afternoon while hanging hunting stands. Very tasty.

 

[BoxsterCy]

Jelly making time for 00.