Trees with Hard Fruits
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Osage-orange tree / Bodark tree / Bow-wood tree /
Hedge-apple tree / Horse Apple tree / Mock Orange tree /
Yellow-wood tree
[Maclura pomifera]
*3 p.71, 391, 573, 429
-- Fruit: Hard, round, green, bumpy surface, about 3"-7" in diameter.
-- Flowers: ?
-- Leaves: Smooth edged, unlobed, shiny, alternate, wide football shaped.
HedgeApple090814A1.JPG
OsageOrange20140907FruitButlerSPKy.JPG
MacluraPomifera_RangeMap.png
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Common Apple tree
[Malus sylvestris | Malus pumila]
*3 p.133, 456, 570, 491
-- Fruit: Hard, crunchy with smooth red, green, or yellow peeling.
-- Fruit has whitish flesh inside with seeds at the core in a
pome.
-- Flowers: 5-oval-petaled, fan shaped.
-- Leaves: Fine toothed edged, unlobed, football shaped.
Apple20160915AnnHOfruitCore1.JPG
TreeWhite5Apple120328EdC.JPG
Apple20160915AnnHOleaves1.JPG
Apple20160915AnnHOtree.JPG
Apple20160915AnnHObark.JPG
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Bradford Pear tree / Callery Pear tree
[Pyrus calleryana]
*8
-- Fruit: Inedible, hard, round, tan colored.
-- Leaves: Finely tooth edged, unlobed, spade or blunt shaped.
-- Flowers: 5-petaled, Star/horn shaped flowers.
PearBradford20161111LeafAndFruit1.JPG
PearBradford20160621LeavesAndFruit2.JPG
White5PearBradford20160325.JPG
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Mexican Plum tree
[Prunus mexicana]
*8
-- Fruit: Round, hard, 1/2" to 3/4" in diameter.
-- Leaves: Unlobed, fine rounded tooth edged, oval or blunted spade shaped.
-- Leaves have pink veins and are pinkish green on their undersides.
-- Pink Flowers: 5-petals, fan shaped, with white anthers.
PlumMexicanTree20170518AnnHOwenB2.JPG
PlumMexicanTree20170518AnnHOwenB.JPG
PlumMexicanTree20170518AnnHOwenD.JPG
Pink5PlumMexicanTree20170330dAnnHOwen.JPG
Pink5PlumMexicanTree20170328bAnnHOwen.JPG
Pink5PlumMexicanTree20170330aAnnHOwen.JPG
PrunusMexicana_RangeMap.png
Trees with Soft Fruits
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Persimmon tree / Possumwood tree /
Simmon tree / Sugar-plum tree
[Diospyros virginiana]
*3 p.83, 393, 571, 635
-- Fruit: Hard when green, turning to soft and pale orange.
-- Fruit not ripe until fallen. Filled with many large seeds.
-- Flowers: 4-petaled, cup shaped flowers.
-- Leaves: Smooth edged, unlobed, spade shaped.
-- Bark: Motled with deep grooves.
Persimmon20160918Fruit1.JPG -- ripe fruit
Persimmon20140901B.JPG -- fruit on tree
PersimmonTree120506Flower.JPG
Green4Persimmon20140523Hardie2.JPG
Green4Persimmon20140523Hardie1.JPG
PersimmonTree120506B.JPG
Persimmon20140901ArborPlaceC.JPG -- bark
DiospyrosVirginiana_RangeMap.png
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Pawpaw tree
[Asimina triloba]
*3 p.87, 364, 446
-- Edible Fruit: Short banana-like, green turning to yellow, full of big seeds.
-- Flowers: 6-petaled, cup shaped flowers.
-- Leaves: Smooth edged, unlobed, opposite, spear shaped.
-- Bark: Smooth, light gray colored.
PawPaw20140907FruitA.JPG -- fruit
Pawpaw20170924LouisvilleKYSeeds.JPG
Green6Pawpaw20140417CTSP_T6a.JPG -- flower
Brown6Pawpaw20140417CTSP_T6c.JPG -- flower
PawPaw20140907FruitC.JPG -- leaves and fruit
PawPaw090802ALappingPark.JPG -- leaves
AsiminaTriloba_RangeMap.png
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Peach tree
[Prunus persica]
*3 p.141, 459, 569, 505
-- Fruit: 2" to 4" diameter, round, with yellow flesh.
-- Red and yellow, fuzzy outer skin on fruit with one 1" seed inside.
-- Pink Flowers: 5-petaled, fan shaped.
-- Leaves: unlobed, fine rounded tooth edged, spear shaped.
-- Leaves are 3" to 5" long and 1/2" to 3/4" wide
PeachTree20170516AnnHOwenFruit2.JPG
Pink5PeachTree20170321eAnnHOwen.JPG
Pink5PeachTree20170321bAnnHOwen.JPG
Pink5Peach20170328AnnHOwen.JPG
PeachTree20170516AnnHOwenShape2.JPG
PeachTree20170516AnnHOwenLeaves2.JPG
