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- dukepoint
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I was told when I purchased this tree it was a pear tree 45 years old, but it produced 1 fruit this year and it is not a pear. I tasted it today and would say it is some type of plum, but very small does the bonsai process restrict the size that fruit becomes? any idea the species of plum?
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most plants will not reduce fruit/flower size as a bonsai.
maybe you can post some close-up of the fruit?
maybe you can post some close-up of the fruit?
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it may be a bird plum they are widey used as bonsai material.
seeing that there is only one fruit that is the size of em. the only way to reduce fruit size is to have alot of them so it only works on large groung grown trees.
i have golden plums that i am working on and the mother tree's fruit are a little bigger than a quarter
as for the age it is hard to tell, but my plums grow quickly 1 to 2 feet a year. a good way to seperate newer from older is to inspect the trunk and branches. on an old tree there will be alot of closed up scars from the years of pruning
nice one by the way were did you pick this one up?
seeing that there is only one fruit that is the size of em. the only way to reduce fruit size is to have alot of them so it only works on large groung grown trees.
i have golden plums that i am working on and the mother tree's fruit are a little bigger than a quarter
as for the age it is hard to tell, but my plums grow quickly 1 to 2 feet a year. a good way to seperate newer from older is to inspect the trunk and branches. on an old tree there will be alot of closed up scars from the years of pruning
nice one by the way were did you pick this one up?
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to late for a close up.. I ate it
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looks more like an victoria plum to me.
How was the taste?
How was the taste?
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Its been 6 months since i notice this tree growing in graveled dry soil at backyard. It has a nice complex root system, sutable for rootover rock...we havent any tree like this, even in neighbors. But in school there is. A valuable tree i guess, a hard word may be, they cultivate this species here in our local. can any one help me idetify this nice plant?
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i know what this is by the way the leaf tips are formed it is a dead givaway but i just can put my finger on what it is...ill keep thinking
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no, its not dead, its lo0k like, but not. Those little brownish tips are young branch and leaues.
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sorry i keep forgeting that we are all not fluid in english :blush:
i didnt mean it was dead just that the leaf tips are an idenifying character (dead givaway)
- oval leaves with a long point on the end -
can you take a pic of the trunk?
i didnt mean it was dead just that the leaf tips are an idenifying character (dead givaway)
- oval leaves with a long point on the end -
can you take a pic of the trunk?
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not really, im the one who cant understand deeper english. Hehe by the way, i forgot to state that this plant lay its leaves freely during the night, it fold like a tamarin or accasia something like that...
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