unidentified fruit tree?

[tinnease]

Hello everyone, new to the forum and straight in with a problem tree!
Moved into a new house and ther is a tree which has been trained along a fence, no fruit, no flowers, but amongst nothing but fruit trees. I have been told peach and bird cherry but cannot identify it .....not for looking at pics mind!
It is covered in small white nodules on the leafs which are hard, nothing in there when you cut them open.
Any help appreciated, what tree is it and what is the white nodes on the leaves?

[poschiavanus]

Its a Prunus: the little white hard blobs are mite galls of Eriophyes similis/prunispinosae (the two species have recently been synonymised). On that basis the candidates are really P. domestica and P. spinosa: with large leaves and no obvious thorns I'd go for the former.

[tinnease]

Thankyou for such a prompt reply, should it have flowers or fruit by now? Do the galls have any impact on the tree......e.g can/should it be treated if so with what?

[poschiavanus]

All the Prunus are early flowerers, so don't expect anything until next spring. The galls are common on Blackthorn in the wild and don't seem to impair its ability to flower and fruit. Also I think getting rid of them would be far more involved than any benefits. This is also the advice by Buczacki and Harris in Collins' Garden Pests, Disorders and Diseases.

A belated welcome to WAB.

[davidbr]

It's definitely Prunus domestica, but looking at the leaves, they seem more like the ssp. insititia (Damson) than ssp. domestica (Garden Plum).

I'm assuming there aren't any fruits on it, because that's the easiest way to tell them apart

[tinnease]

No Fruits, no sign of fruits, no blossom.........I am guessing its a non fruit variety?
thankyou