Cheeky Tree ID Please

[IncognitoBurrito]

Hi all, I’m not having much luck with identifying this gorgeous tree online. It is deciduous and currently hung with large orange berries or small fruits of some kind. They are dangling on the end of the branches. It is about 8-10 feet tall overall. It looks amazing in winter and I want one! Terrible photo attached. This is in West London, UK. It has looked like this for all of December and still now. Thank you!!

Can you get a closer pic, with the berries and a couple of twigs in focus? And ideally a leaf if there are any still on it.

Could be a crab apple?

Sorbus or crab most likely, but we need a close up at least of the berries

I think it's a rowan tree (otherwise known as mountain ash or Sorbus), it's hard to tell from the photo, I don't think it's a crab apple, as the fruit doesn't look big enough (we have several carb apples) but it's hard with that photo.

Now a carb apple sounds fun, crabapple obvs!

I came on to say Rowan as well, they're lovely. You get different varieties with different coloured berries I think, I'm sure I've seen red ones (the most common I think, but my favourite!), orange ones and yellow.

I have a crab apple with pea-sized “apples”. You can’t rule out crab on size of fruit. It may be distortion in the photo, but it seemed to me the berries weren’t completely spherical. Mind, I think there are too many in the bunch for it to be crab.

Winter king, Green Hawthorn?

Does it look like any of the pictures here?

You have to wait for them to appear in rotation -

mtcubacenter.org/plants/winter-king-green-hawthorn/

@Falkenburg That's an American variety of hawthorn and pretty much unheard of in the UK.

It could be another variety of crataegus though, or more likely some sort of rowan, although most would have lost their berries (or had them eaten by birds) weeks ago. Need pictures when it comes into leaf and flower really.

Thank you very much for all of your responses. I have further evidence attached. They look like little apples to me. So maybe a mini crab apple?

For anyone following this I think I’ve found the answer. Picture attached.

Ahh lovely! I want to get a crab apple - I got a dwarf apple tree last year & crab apples are good for aiding pollination & for wildlife.

I can’t see from your picture - has the fruit got pips inside like an apple? Or a single stone? If it’s a single stone, then it’s not Malus

That fruit is not a crab apple. It looks like it has a stone in the middle. So leaning towards a sorbus - sorbus wardii is a possible contender.