Crabapples can absolutely be this size, but they’re not usually soft
I at first thought they might be ornamental cherries, but you don’t see a blossom end on the fruit of a cherry, and these do have a distinct blossom end. But that blossom end isn’t star shaped like you’d expect to see in apples and relatives of apples though. So I’m also stumped!
ObsoleteStoryteller
Location?
tellmeabouthisthing
Can you remove one of the leaves and get a photo of it on a flat backdrop like a piece of paper or the sidewalk? You’ll need to upload it to imgur.com and link it in the comments.
MinimumSolid1679
Yes I tried them, they’re sour and pretty tasty. Yes ik eating unidentified plants is dangerous but I really don’t care, i’d be fine going out that way!
FormerAvocado5333
Were they picked from a currant bush, not sure if the grow in Canada. Not a crab apple…. Hard apple, not fun mowing over them.
Squeakersnail
If you’ve had a freeze/thaw recently, crab apples can get soft and squishy from that.
camprn
Look like red gooseberries to me.
Organic_Tomato_2116
Cherries. Some glassy, orange type.
Eeww-David
I’ll agree on an ornamental apple, this specimen was bred for flowering and bearing many small fruits.
The Malus genus, which is apples, contains approximately 36 species, and these species can readily hybridization. Flowering apples, more commonly known as types of crabapples, are often used as pollinators in apple orchards as domestic apples are sterile without genetically distinct pollinators.
howlingwolf487
Are they Autumn Olive?
Reasonable-Berry9146
Choke cherries?
ComedianRude5032
They look way too small to be any crabapple I’ve ever seen in southern Ontario or Nova Scotia
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Not sure, but no they are not crabapples.
Siberian Crab Apple- *Malus baccata*
Crabapples can absolutely be this size, but they’re not usually soft
I at first thought they might be ornamental cherries, but you don’t see a blossom end on the fruit of a cherry, and these do have a distinct blossom end. But that blossom end isn’t star shaped like you’d expect to see in apples and relatives of apples though. So I’m also stumped!
Location?
Can you remove one of the leaves and get a photo of it on a flat backdrop like a piece of paper or the sidewalk? You’ll need to upload it to imgur.com and link it in the comments.
Yes I tried them, they’re sour and pretty tasty. Yes ik eating unidentified plants is dangerous but I really don’t care, i’d be fine going out that way!
Were they picked from a currant bush, not sure if the grow in Canada. Not a crab apple…. Hard apple, not fun mowing over them.
If you’ve had a freeze/thaw recently, crab apples can get soft and squishy from that.
Look like red gooseberries to me.
Cherries. Some glassy, orange type.
I’ll agree on an ornamental apple, this specimen was bred for flowering and bearing many small fruits.
The Malus genus, which is apples, contains approximately 36 species, and these species can readily hybridization. Flowering apples, more commonly known as types of crabapples, are often used as pollinators in apple orchards as domestic apples are sterile without genetically distinct pollinators.
Are they Autumn Olive?
Choke cherries?
They look way too small to be any crabapple I’ve ever seen in southern Ontario or Nova Scotia
Is this also called a choke cherry by any chance?