Plant id

[GrowThroughWhatYouGoThrough]

Hi can't anyone identify this plant/tree for me please 😀

Something from the plum family by the looks of it - hard to tell until they ripen. You might be lucky and have a greengage or a damson.

As yamadori says, a Prunus

they look too round to be a damson, agree that if you are lucky it will be a greengage.

Are they sloes?

Are they sloes?
too big for sloes, though could be a bullace, but they tend to come in clusters like sloes.

We have one of those. DH refers to it as a greengage, I call it "that bloody damson". I'm not sure who's correct if anyone is. The fruits go yellow in a good year, brown and mouldy in a less good year. (Last year was good, the weeks of sun in May really agreed with it, to the extent that the weight of fruit actually broke branches!)

It's definitely a Prunus, and therefore suckers appear in the ground all round the tree and have to be hacked off regularly.

Is it your tree OP?

yes it is @TheNoodlesIncident however we didn't plant it. It hasn't done much over the past couple of years we've lived in the house but this year there's quite a lot on it

I also think it's some sort of plum/damson/gage. If it's got a lot of fruit, I'd remove about half of them right away - you'll have less fruit, but it will be better quality. Also, it's less likely that the branches will break under the weight of the fruit.

@TheNoodlesIncident damsons are deep purple

MereDint, yeah I knew I was probably wrong, but I've never cared enough to actually do the legwork and find out what it actually is. Most years a lot of the fruit goes rotten and mouldy before it goes ripe, so the ground is covered in mouldy yuck. The rest attracts wasps.

I am not a fan

No idea what that is but it looks like some sort of plum fruit.
There's an app called Picture This than identifies all sorts of plants. Take a picture and it tells you what it is. I use the free version all the time on walks and it's very accurate.
It might help you.

@Branster

No idea what that is but it looks like some sort of plum fruit. There's an app called Picture This than identifies all sorts of plants. Take a picture and it tells you what it is. I use the free version all the time on walks and it's very accurate. It might help you.

How do you know the id is accurate if you don’t already know what the plant is?

I tested it a few times with plants I could recognise myself as a fun test game and it was spot on. It appears to be be quite accurate.

I just tried it with your picture OP! 😂
Plum

Plums are green and hard before they ripe. But usually an elongated shape. The shape of the stone inside might be a further clue. I thought damson comes in red and yellow and they are perfectly round. We'll all know come autumn- please update