# Plant identification (Fruit-bearing tree) **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [July 6, 2019, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/plant-identification-fruit-bearing-tree/836630 "2019-07-06T17:33:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Bear\_Nenno](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bear_nenno/32/3358_2.png) [@Bear\_Nenno](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bear_Nenno)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2019, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/plant-identification-fruit-bearing-tree/836630/1 "2019-07-06T17:33:52Z")
What kind of tree is this? > **[20190706-190024-1 hosted at ImgBB](https://ibb.co/vPHGWXy)** > > Image 20190706-190024-1 hosted in ImgBB ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2019, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/plant-identification-fruit-bearing-tree/836630/2 "2019-07-06T18:15:46Z")
Looks like a pawpaw tree (_Asimina triloba_) to me. ---
**Author:** ![Filbert](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/filbert/32/3433_2.png) [@Filbert](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Filbert)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2019, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/plant-identification-fruit-bearing-tree/836630/3 "2019-07-06T18:46:43Z")
Looks like some kind of plum to me. Whereabouts is it? That might help narrow it down. ---
**Author:** ![Bear\_Nenno](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bear_nenno/32/3358_2.png) [@Bear\_Nenno](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bear_Nenno)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2019, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/plant-identification-fruit-bearing-tree/836630/4 "2019-07-06T18:57:35Z")
I’m in Bavaria, east of Nürnberg. Silenus’s suggestion led me to this video of some pawpaws in Germany. But I don’t think the leaves are right. The fruit are currently about the size of… the end joint of a thumb. I’m not sure how helpful that is, though, because they might just be small, or they might still have a lot of growing to do. Next to it is an apple tree that produced tiny, ripe apples so this tree might just have small fruit, too. ---
**Author:** ![Filbert](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/filbert/32/3433_2.png) [@Filbert](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Filbert)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2019, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/plant-identification-fruit-bearing-tree/836630/5 "2019-07-06T19:20:07Z")
I’m pretty sure it’s a plum of some kind, looking more carefully. There’s some visible dropped fruit turning purple, could be a damson? The one at work has fruit about that size right now, but there’s quite a bit of variety, and they do hybridise a bit. Did it have little white flowers in early spring? ---
**Author:** ![Gymnopithys](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/fbc32d/32.png) [@Gymnopithys](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gymnopithys)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2019, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/plant-identification-fruit-bearing-tree/836630/6 "2019-07-06T19:35:12Z")
It is a damson. ---
**Author:** ![Yeah](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/dbc845/32.png) [@Yeah](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yeah)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2019, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/plant-identification-fruit-bearing-tree/836630/7 "2019-07-06T20:02:04Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > Looks like a pawpaw tree (_Asimina triloba_) to me. Definitely NOT a paw paw. ---
**Author:** ![Ulfreida](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ulfreida/32/8014_2.png) [@Ulfreida](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ulfreida)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2019, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/plant-identification-fruit-bearing-tree/836630/8 "2019-07-06T20:30:39Z")
Damson plum. It is a European plum variety. ---
**Author:** ![Springtime\_for\_Spacers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Springtime\_for\_Spacers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Springtime_for_Spacers)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2019, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/plant-identification-fruit-bearing-tree/836630/9 "2019-07-06T20:39:07Z")
Damson, they make good pies and jam 🙂 . Could be an idea to net them against birds. ---
**Author:** ![GMANCANADA](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gmancanada/32/2837_2.png) [@GMANCANADA](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GMANCANADA)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2019, 12:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/plant-identification-fruit-bearing-tree/836630/10 "2019-07-08T12:52:15Z")
Not that I want to diminish the SDMB’s utility, but I recently picked up this free plant identification app called PlantSnap. You can take a photo or use one from your photo library and it identifies it. I tested it on a few garden plants I knew and it nailed them all. I’ve been using it to identify some plants and tree I don’t know now. > **[PlantSnap - Plant Identifier App, #1 Mobile App for Plant Identification](https://www.plantsnap.com)** > > PlantSnap is an easy-to-use plant identifier app. Use it for instant flower identification, tree identification, and other plant identification needs! ---
**Author:** ![SanVito](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sanvito/32/2805_2.png) [@SanVito](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SanVito)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2019, 1:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/plant-identification-fruit-bearing-tree/836630/11 "2019-07-08T13:11:01Z")
> [@Springtime\_for\_Spacers](#): > > Damson, they make good pies and jam 🙂 . Could be an idea to net them against birds. Please don’t - birds can get caught, and it also means they can’t eat - they may need the plums more than you do! ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2019, 1:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/plant-identification-fruit-bearing-tree/836630/12 "2019-07-08T13:21:54Z")
There is also [Google Lens](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Lens). It failed with this particular photo, but it is almost scary how good it is at identifying things sometimes. There have been times that it has identified plants and animals down to the correct species from photos that I’ve taken. ---
**Author:** ![Napier](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ce73a5/32.png) [@Napier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Napier)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2019, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/plant-identification-fruit-bearing-tree/836630/13 "2019-07-09T21:26:13Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > Looks like a pawpaw tree (_Asimina triloba_) to me. Doesn’t look like a pawpaw to me either. Their fruits are more irregular, kind of like a small green potato without the eyes. Also they’re not clustered. And the leaves are big and long, with the widest spot definitely closer to the tip than the base. Pawpaws grow wild around here and ripen about Labor Day. They’re not edible for long, their ripe season being very short. ---
**Author:** ![Bear\_Nenno](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bear_nenno/32/3358_2.png) [@Bear\_Nenno](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bear_Nenno)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2019, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/plant-identification-fruit-bearing-tree/836630/14 "2019-07-09T21:46:10Z")
> [@GMANCANADA](#): > > Not that I want to diminish the SDMB’s utility, but I recently picked up this free plant identification app called PlantSnap. You can take a photo or use one from your photo library and it identifies it. > > I tested it on a few garden plants I knew and it nailed them all. I’ve been using it to identify some plants and tree I don’t know now. > > [https://www.plantsnap.com](https://www.plantsnap.com) Thanks. I just used that app to identify the other fruit tree in my yard. I have peaches!!! I love it. So far, I have two apple trees (Golden Delicious), a peach tree, a damson tree, blue berries, raspberries, black berries, gooseberries, strawberries and rhubarb. ---
**Author:** ![GMANCANADA](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gmancanada/32/2837_2.png) [@GMANCANADA](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GMANCANADA)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2019, 12:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/plant-identification-fruit-bearing-tree/836630/15 "2019-07-10T12:39:30Z")
You’re welcome! So to be clear - the one we thought was a pawpaw is a peach tree? ---
**Author:** ![Bear\_Nenno](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bear_nenno/32/3358_2.png) [@Bear\_Nenno](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bear_Nenno)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2019, 1:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/plant-identification-fruit-bearing-tree/836630/16 "2019-07-10T13:08:03Z")
> [@GMANCANADA](#): > > You’re welcome! > > So to be clear - the one we thought was a pawpaw is a peach tree? No, that one is a damson plum. There is also a peach tree. It has fuzzy green fruits, that I figured might be some kind of peach or kiwi or something. Planstsnap says it’s a peach. Can’t wait to see them ripen. I have all kinds of stuff in this yard. Three different color roses–white, pink and red; tulips, lavender, and also probably every kind of weed that exists.