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Beekeeping => Beekeeping 101 => Topic started by: Yankee11 on May 26, 2014, 12:11:39 am
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My son walked his dog this afternoon and said there was tree on their walk that may have a swarm in it. We went down there and it sure sounded like it.
It was not a swarm but they were all over this tree. I am trying to identify it. Here is a picture.
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Hard to tell from that pic, but looks like a fruit tree. Could even be a crab apple. Were there any thorns on it, even small blunt ones can tell the tale.
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Do you by chance have a picture of the whole tree? The two pictures might help. Tom
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It is hard to tell, but is it a tall tree or more of a bush? The small produce looks to me like it might be pomegranate. Thank you spell checker!!
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Yes, more pictures. So many of the apple varieties look so similar. Even a picture of the bark could be helpful.
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like others, the whole tree?
like george, fruit tree, and first guess also, crab apple
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Took some more.
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hard to tell for sure, but looks awfully similar to a persimmon tree to me . . .
Does it have orange fruit about the size of a quarter in late summer?
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dont know yet.
All I know is the bees love it. I'll check and see if it produces any kind of fruit
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ablanton,
Thats it. Its persimmon. I just did a ggogle search for persimmon images and thats what it is.
thanks a bunch.
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if this is your first introduction to persimmons, make sure they are almost rotten before you eat one. Eat 'em too soon and they're tart enough to make a 'possum grin. :laugh: Old timers said not to eat them before the first frost, but the ones around here bear a little too early for that . . .
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It is funny to watch the cows stand around and wait for them to hit the ground.
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I would say that the leaves look a lot like persimmon, but I don't agree that's what the tree is. The "hat" of the fruit is on the wrong side. I have a wild persimmon tree in my yard and each fruit has a little leaf hat. I leaning more towards some kind of apple. And yeah, if you eat these things too early, beware.
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It looks to be a male tree.-no fruit.
http://www.ppdl.purdue.edu/ppdl/weeklypics/6-14-10.html
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I don't think it's a permission either, but neither am I sold on it being a apple of some kind.
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It looks to be a male tree.-no fruit.
http://www.ppdl.purdue.edu/ppdl/weeklypics/6-14-10.html
Also from the link provided.... And, persimmons rely on bees to transfer pollen from the male flowers to the female flowers in order to produce fruit. Honeybees generally travel a mile from their colony; with perhaps a maximum of three miles.....
Have to agree it is a male persimmon tree....leaf structure etc. From my trapping friends down south the critters like them as much as the honey bees....Tom
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Yes, looks like a wild/native male persimmon? ours is a- buzz with bees every year!
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They make very good wine AFTER they're ripe. The green ones will really make you pucker.