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What is this plant please?

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ChickLittle | 20:05 Mon 05th Dec 2011 | Gardening
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I have this plant in my garden and I have no idea what it is. The bush/tree is about 5ft tall and the fruit/berries are 2-3cm across at their biggest. Any ideas?
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If the stems are furry .. Actinidia variety.
Looking again, I suspect it has a tough bark stem/trunk .. so it would be Malus (crab apple)
22:48 Mon 05th Dec 2011
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Better pic of the fruit here...

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20:07 Mon 05th Dec 2011
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Looks like one of my favourites ..
A member of the Kiwi fruit family ..
Actinidia .. Exact variety I will have to look about for.
22:00 Mon 05th Dec 2011
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http://www.ars.usda.g.../docs.htm?docid=11308
22:01 Mon 05th Dec 2011
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A while since I had one .. furry stems, mine had.
22:02 Mon 05th Dec 2011
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TMI Al!
22:03 Mon 05th Dec 2011
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Eh! TMI .. ... Take Me .. something K? ; xx
22:12 Mon 05th Dec 2011
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Take Me Inside? lol
22:13 Mon 05th Dec 2011
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sIdeways ?
22:14 Mon 05th Dec 2011
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Ten More Inches?
22:18 Mon 05th Dec 2011
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(sorry Rozelle .. running rudie jokes with Karen)
(she stalks me .. not that I'm complaining)
22:20 Mon 05th Dec 2011
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Persimmon?
22:27 Mon 05th Dec 2011
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Not a quince, as Albags said they have furry stems are bigger and quite misshapen
22:28 Mon 05th Dec 2011
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LOL, no worries. At the risk of taking this thread even closer to the gutter...my fruit aren't hairy like a kiwi, they're smooth. They're also yellowy orange so not sure they can be kiwi fruit. A friend has a similar plant and was told it was a quince tree but that doesn't seem to add up either as the fruit on mine don't get any bigger than 3cm. Any more ideas?
22:33 Mon 05th Dec 2011
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Did you see it in flower? What are they like?
22:35 Mon 05th Dec 2011
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could they be crab apples, if you look at this link, they look fairly similar http://www.hedging.co...og/product_10369.html
22:38 Mon 05th Dec 2011
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Hmm, could well be a Japanese Persimmon (Kaki) Jomifl! I think I shall have to pick a fruit tomorrow and cut it open to confirm.
22:38 Mon 05th Dec 2011
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Too much information Al - you didn't really need to share that you had a 'furry stem' ;)
22:40 Mon 05th Dec 2011
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Prudie, haven't seen it in flower yet I'm afraid. Jules001, they look very similar to the crab apples. Another one to investigate tomorrow!
22:41 Mon 05th Dec 2011
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I didn't say Kiwi .. I said a member of the same family.
The only other tree like this would be a Malus variety... like 'Golden Hornet'
http://www.rhs.org.uk...-x-zumi-Golden-Hornet

http://www.landford-trees.co.uk/page5.htm
22:43 Mon 05th Dec 2011
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No on Persimmons ..
They (fruit) look like tomatoes . with a tough leaflet at stem junction.
22:46 Mon 05th Dec 2011

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