You can see the trunk is very straight and the leaves starting to emerge.

It looks quite a bit like a plum, and while I've never seen it (new to plums), I've heard they can even set fruit from thorns.

Thank you! It does seems like a plum tree. It won't set fruit until 5-6 years later after planting so I will wait couple more years and see how this one turns out.

The shiny foliage is very unusual for a plum. More like a pear. Did you plant it or could it be a volunteer? Most fruit tree cultivars dont have spikes IME

to be clear.. there are ornamental versions of both pear and plumb.. that may flower.. but never fruit ... or have inedible fruit ...

and i never heard of anything fruiting from a thorn.. to my eye.. they are two different types of tissue ...

you need one to the botanical gurus to chime in.. so i am bumping this back up the page ... we may have to wait until the leaves fully form ... or a flower appears ...

ken

ps: maybe the flamingo did it??? .. i dont know what.. but he is looking awful suspicious.. lol .;..

Doesn't look at all plummy to me. Come back with some fully formed leaves and we can tell you if it's a pear.

This is a volunteer from another part of the garden. The tree trunk looked unusual so I kept it. I used to have a plum tree in my old house and the leaves were purplish red, plus the branches were not as stiff. It could well be just a random wild tree. I will take more pictures in a couple weeks and upload again. Thanks everyone!