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Oxo01 · 09/06/2025 15:03

Can anyone identify what these maybe.
It's next door neighbors tree, skin is smooth, green with some red.
Rock hard, was able to cut one a little bit where I found it is yellow/ lime in colour.

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BadWoIf · 09/06/2025 15:32

I think you need a better photo. Could you take one showing a single leaf in detail?

Does the fruit have a stone in the middle?

JaneWithTheUntidyHouse · 09/06/2025 15:35

Nectarine? The leaves suggest prunus family, the fruit looks like a nectarine.

NancyBellaDonna · 09/06/2025 15:36

I think that's a Victoria plum. Give them a few more days with some sun and they should ripen up. Plum crumble?

steppemum · 09/06/2025 15:42

looks really like a plum.
Not ripe until you get a bloom on the surface, like on grapes

Oxo01 · 09/06/2025 15:45

Not sure if it has a stone asvits hard to cut at mo. Here's another picture.

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JaneWithTheUntidyHouse · 09/06/2025 15:46

Ooh from the clearer picture those fruits are smaller than nectarines. My money's on Victoria plum as well.

daisyonadolphin · 09/06/2025 15:48

Crabapples ?

Oxo01 · 09/06/2025 15:51

I thought plumbs or greengage.
Thing is its been there for years and I've never noticed it producing fruits.

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Yamadori · 09/06/2025 15:58

It isn't a nectarine, they only grow well if trained up against a warm wall in the UK.

It definitely is a prunus (ie a plum in this case) but there are loads of varieties, and those aren't anywhere near ripe yet.

Oxo01 · 09/06/2025 16:07

Tha is all
@Yamadori So does that mean they will just die away, as NDN dont really do anything with the tree so that's why I have not noticed any fruits before ?

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WildCherryBlossom · 09/06/2025 16:58

It looks like an unripe apricot to me

WildCherryBlossom · 09/06/2025 17:00

It’s probably fruiting well thanks to the long hot Spring we have had. I have a fig tree laden with fruit which produced next to nothing last year.

DrDameKatyDeniseInExile · 09/06/2025 17:03

Oxo01 · 09/06/2025 16:07

Tha is all
@Yamadori So does that mean they will just die away, as NDN dont really do anything with the tree so that's why I have not noticed any fruits before ?

No. It might have not fruited before due to weather conditions, no cross pollination, or even if it’s a self pollinating variety it still may depend on weather leading up to the fruit production. Pruning can also affect fruiting.

Oxo01 · 09/06/2025 19:25

i usuarly would cut any branches hanging over my side, so i will keep my eyes on it now and leave the ones hanging over for now.

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WildCherryBlossom · 09/06/2025 19:31

Oh I would enjoy the overhanging branches. Judging by the fruit, it must have blossomed well in early spring.

daisyonadolphin · 09/06/2025 19:41

I've been looking at some pictures and there is, apparently, such a tree as a Cherry Plum in the Prunus Family.....
I'd like to post some pictures but they're copyright

Oxo01 · 09/06/2025 20:59

Been thinking about the tree more todaybl, its been there for over 25 years.
I recall many many years ago it was dripping sticky sap like juice and hundreds of insects on the leave, NDN fence.

In the last 5 or 10 years it was completly blown over by the wind (luckily it fell straight on towards their back door missed hitting it by a foot or so) and not in my garden.

So maybe that's why I've not seen any fruit etc as its been growing back for some years.

It's really tall again and looks like bits are leaning towards my garden more now, so hope it doesn't fall into mine in any future high winds.

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