Fruit tree identification

**Thatgirl101** · 03-05-2019, 02:51 PM

Fruit tree identification

Hi all,

We have a espalier trained fruit tree in our garden which we inherited. We are trying to establish what kind of fruit tree it is and wondered if you could help. It has flowered but has never produced any fruit.

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**veggiechicken** · 03-05-2019, 03:04 PM

Originally posted by Thatgirl101 View Post

Hi all,

We have a espalier trained fruit tree in our garden which we inherited. We are trying to establish what kind of fruit tree it is and wondered if you could help. It has flowered but has never produced any fruit.

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Hi and welcome!
I'm sorry but your attachments aren't working and you may have problems posting images until you've made a few more posts - forum rules and all that!!
We would only be able to guess at the type of tree, not the variety without seeing the fruit.
Have you compared the leaves with online images of pear, cherry, apple and plum trees?

**Jay-ell** · 03-05-2019, 03:06 PM

Hi TG101

I've merged the two threads together. I've noticed that you are having problems linking to images.

The vine uses bb code I. E. square brackets rather than gt/lt signs.

I'll have a look to try and sort out the links later when I'm on the desktop

**nickdub** · 03-05-2019, 03:35 PM

an espalier tree is likely to be a pear or an apple - if a lot of the leaves are quite shiny, as though they've had a bit of a polish, its almost certainly a pear.

**Jay-ell** · 03-05-2019, 04:23 PM

Originally posted by Thatgirl101 View Post

Hi all,

We have a espalier trained fruit tree in our garden which we inherited. We are trying to establish what kind of fruit tree it is and wondered if you could help. It has flowered but has never produced any fruit.

<a rel="nofollow" href="https://ibb.co/FYLMy7j"><img src="https://i.ibb.co/FYLMy7j/20190502-181746.jpg" alt="20190502-181746" border="0"></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="https://ibb.co/MN3WCCz"><img src="https://i.ibb.co/MN3WCCz/20190502-181720.jpg" alt="20190502-181720" border="0"></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="https://ibb.co/7zrHSSb"><img src="https://i.ibb.co/7zrHSSb/20190502-181537.jpg" alt="20190502-181537" border="0"></a>

Between the two posts you almost got it right.

In the first post you gave the IMG tag and the square brackets, the problem in that the address in the middle of the tag is a web page and not a link to an image.

In the second post you gave the correct image addres in the img src= part of the tag, however the vine doesn't allow embedding html like that.

You need to take the image address from the second post ( src="...../???.jpg" bit but not including the src="" bit) and replace the address in the first post with that.

squarebracket IMGsquarebracket https://i.ibb.co/FYLMy7j/20190502-181746.jpg squarebracket /IMG squarebracket

provided the image

**ameno** · 04-05-2019, 01:40 AM

I'm almost certain that's an apricot.
The leaves are shiny, as pointed out above, but they are too round to be a pear, and have a serrated edge, which pears lack.
That leaf shape matches apricot leaves, though. And the bark looks like apricot bark.

**nickdub** · 04-05-2019, 07:58 AM

Originally posted by ameno View Post

I'm almost certain that's an apricot.
The leaves are shiny, as pointed out above, but they are too round to be a pear, and have a serrated edge, which pears lack.
That leaf shape matches apricot leaves, though. And the bark looks like apricot bark.

I reckon your tree might be an Apricot then (sorry couldn't resist - stupid sense of humour).

Bit unusual for one to be trained as an espalier, but I have seen it done successfully. BTW apricots usually flower before other fruit trees, so that might confirm your id.

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