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21-09-2010, 05:50 PM
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| | | Unidentified fruits/berries On the way back from looking for reptiles my friend spotted some apple trees growing by the side of the road so we stopped and went to pick some, but they were crab apples, but we noticed there were other fruit trees as well, there was hawthorns, which must be a slightly differnet variety to the ones im familar with as the berries were huge! there was some other trees with red small berries and another few trees with these odd spiky things which i have never seen before.
Hope someone can help id these as me and my freind are most intrigued!
I have included photos of the fruits and also the leaves, and used a 1p coin for scale in some of the pics. | 
21-09-2010, 06:08 PM
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| | | Re: Unidentified fruits/berries You have not put your other pics on but the spiky fruit looks like the fruit from the red horse chestnut tree..
Aesculus x carnea | 
21-09-2010, 06:31 PM
|  | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: Weardale, Co Durham
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| | | Re: Unidentified fruits/berries Could the small red berries be Bird Cherry?
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21-09-2010, 06:36 PM
|  | Wild Member | | Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Eastleigh, Hampshire
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| | | Re: Unidentified fruits/berries for some reason it would only let me add one photo (which are the red berries) when i looked in my Gallery i could see the other pics i uploaded, if you click the photo of the red berries it should take you to my Gallery where you can see the other pics.
I didnt think the spiky one looked chesnut like but the shape wasnt familar to me, im used to chesnuts being round, but the leaves do look very chesnut like.
Thanks for your help | 
21-09-2010, 07:00 PM
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| | | Re: Unidentified fruits/berries | 
21-09-2010, 10:09 PM
|  | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: May 2010 Location: Snowdonia, N. Wales
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| | | Re: Unidentified fruits/berries I agree with Kayleigh, Red Horse-chestnut, Aesculus × carnea the hybrid between the Red Buckeye-A. pavia and our Common Horse-chestnut A. hippocastanum.
The Cherry is probably one of many 'cultivars' grown for their flowers. It is not Bird Cherry, that has black fruits and more elliptical leaves.
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21-09-2010, 11:00 PM
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| | | Re: Unidentified fruits/berries Could the red berries not be from some Malus sp. They look just like the ones on our (ornamental) crab-apple tree.
I guess the check could be if Vipera cuts them up and sees what lies inside ie. a stone, or perhaps some pips if it is some sort of apple. | 
21-09-2010, 11:06 PM
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| | | Re: Unidentified fruits/berries I will do that | 
21-09-2010, 11:36 PM
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| | | Re: Unidentified fruits/berries Quote:
Originally Posted by contrary I guess the check could be if Vipera cuts them up and sees what lies inside ie. a stone, or perhaps some pips if it is some sort of apple.  | Excelent idea, that will sort it out.
Welcome to WAB by the way Contrary.
Dorts. | 
22-09-2010, 03:51 PM
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| | | Re: Unidentified fruits/berries Good idea contrary! and it has pips, very similar to apple pips but smaller so looks like your guess was right!
ive never seen apples that tiny before! i doubt they are edible though.
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