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| Can anyone identify what kind of cherries these are? They are from a tree/bush in the side yard of an abandoned house next door. The green things are apples so disregard them. :) |
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- Posted by fabaceae_native (My Page) on Fri, Jul 19, 13 at 22:26
| Call me crazy, but those are no cherries at all... They are probably some type of plum (that just happens to be the size of a cherry), since cherries are rarely that round, have so small an indentation where the stem connects, and come free of the stem so cleanly. Also the coloring/spotting, etc... would be very unusual for a cherry. If you're not convinced, do a google image search for different types of cherries. Don't let the size fool you, even among wild cherries and plums there is some size overlap... |
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- Posted by konrad___far_north 3..just outside of E (My Page) on Fri, Jul 19, 13 at 23:11
| Agree...taste them. |
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- Posted by AiliDeSpain 6a - Utah (My Page) on Fri, Jul 19, 13 at 23:21
| I have tasted them, they are sweet but do not t taste like a cherry,they do kind of taste like a plum, but being the size of s cherry I didn't think they were plums. |
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- Posted by AiliDeSpain 6a - Utah (My Page) on Fri, Jul 19, 13 at 23:37
| Could they be cherry plums? |
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- Posted by steve_in_los_osos CA 10a/Sunset 17 (My Page) on Sat, Jul 20, 13 at 11:07
| They look a lot like some "Sierra" plums I had at a CRFG meeting last weekend. If so, they are a selection of wild plum which has been around for a long time. Those look kind of small, but that could be culture. The ones I had were delicious. Gotta find some scion wood! |
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| If they're wild; they should come true if you plant the seeds. |
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- Posted by steve_in_los_osos CA 10a/Sunset 17 (My Page) on Sat, Jul 20, 13 at 18:16
| There's "wild" and theres wild. "Sierra" is a particularly good selection of wild plum. So Nature has done some playing around with it perhaps, either through natural hybridization or mutation. It *might* come true from seed. Several vendors offer trees. The Arboreum.biz and Sanhedrin (though I think they don't currently have any). |
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- Posted by AiliDeSpain 6a - Utah (My Page) on Sat, Jul 20, 13 at 18:58
| Well whatever they are they make a good jam. I used a cherry plum jam recipe and canned 8 half pints and I still have enough to make another batch. :) |
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| Please post a picture of the plant -- overall and close-up |
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| Aili - how do you deal with the plum pits? I find it the very devil to get the pit out of clingstone plums. |
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- Posted by AiliDeSpain 6a - Utah (My Page) on Sun, Jul 21, 13 at 13:01
| When making jam you heat the whole recipe then take it off the heat, run the plums through a colander then I hand squeezed all the plums and removed the pits by hand. It was a huge pain in the arse but the jam turned out good!! I will try to post a picture of the tree later. |
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| Yeah, that huge pain part is what I'd like to eliminate. |
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