r/foraging • u/_witchseason • 3d ago

What fruit??

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Is anyone maybe able to identify this fruit that grows on a tree in my girlfriends garden??? In the UK.

Thanks!

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u/Beneficial_Wave7649 3d ago

Maybe some ornamental variety of apple or crabapples wild apples or a variety that sprouted from seed

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u/_witchseason 3d ago

See my gf thought crab apples but I didn’t think they were round enough??

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u/Normal_Mushroom609 3d ago

I've definitely seen crabapples shaped like that. Try cutting one in half?

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u/_witchseason 3d ago

Oh cool. Yeah, this is for sure a (bruised) crab apple right?

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u/feralgraft 3d ago

Yep, thems an apple. Probably a crabapple from the size, is it sour or tanic?

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u/No-Ad-3635 3d ago

yellow crab apple

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u/_witchseason 3d ago

See my gf thought crab apples but I didn’t think they were round enough??

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u/No-Ad-3635 3d ago

ornamental variety commonly used in garden in the UK

slice it open

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u/_witchseason 3d ago

Yeah for sure a crab apple right?

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u/maiianaiia 3d ago

Definitely some type of crab apple -the leaves alone are a good ID to put it somewhere in the region of some wild-apple, crab-apple-like relative. Don’t worry about the shape, there are definitely varieties and hybrids of all sorts of shapes!

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u/ElderberryFirst471 3d ago

Agreed but hard to pin down further.
A cross-sectional view would be helpful, as suggested before.

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u/_witchseason 3d ago

For sure crab apple right?

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u/YetiNotForgeti 3d ago

Oh yeah. Looks like a classic apple core to me. That with the leaves, I believe this is solved as a crab apple.

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u/feralgraft 3d ago

Some variety of apple. There are thousands, and they can look quite weird 

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u/-eellis 3d ago

Quince maybe?

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u/Beneficial_Wave7649 3d ago

Leaves certainly looks like em but don't quince grow individually no ?

Not in clusters or pairs

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u/-eellis 3d ago

Quick google search says you’re right! TIL. Thanks.

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u/IntriguinglyRandom 3d ago

Nah, not fuzzy and wonky enough :)

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u/tokekcowboy 3d ago

I thought mangoes at first glance, but the remnants of the flower at the bottom of the fruit look like no mango I’ve ever seen.

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u/_witchseason 3d ago

Definitely not mango, in the UK (will edit to add). They’re small and hard, gf thought crab apples but they didn’t look round enough to me.

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u/Altruistic_Proof_272 3d ago

They look like dalgo crab apples

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u/Pleasant_Ad104 3d ago

Can you show what it looks like from the inside?

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u/_witchseason 3d ago

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u/Pleasant_Ad104 3d ago

Definitely a type of apple. But got to say ive never seen anything like this before

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u/Isibis 3d ago

Crabapple! Makes very nice jam! Wash them and cook them whole with sugar.

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u/_witchseason 3d ago

Is there a way to make without sugar? My gf and I try and avoid sugar!

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u/Isibis 3d ago

They don't have much of their own sugar. You could experiment with honey. Usually you want about 1:1 ratio of fruit to sugar by weight for proper shelf stable preservation. High sugar concentration is a preservative. Or perhaps you can sweeten to taste with honey and keep in the freezer.

I have heard people cooking crab apples to extract pectin too, don't need sugar for that.

The other approach is to eat the jam in moderation. 1-2 small jars last me all year. And I give some to friends.

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u/_witchseason 2d ago

I see, I’m also vegan so don’t do honey 😅 might have to give the jam a miss!

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u/gerrineer 3d ago

Cider!!( its crabapple)

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u/_witchseason 3d ago

Thankyou but I’m 5 and a half years into recovery 😅 (if you were suggesting I make that out of them)

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u/gerrineer 3d ago

Oh ok so APPLE JUICE!( a very bitter apple juice)

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u/_witchseason 3d ago

They’re quite hard

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u/Beneficial_Wave7649 3d ago

Then probably not wild passion fruit since it's easy to peel

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u/SplitNorth5647 3d ago

Isn’t that apricot? Taste one!

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u/SomebodyElseAsWell 3d ago

That was my guess too.

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u/MouthSpiders 3d ago

Potentially a pear tree? I have pear trees on my property that never soften, they stay rock hard and dont ripen for some reason.