Tree ID please?

[upstatenybowyer]

I'm hoping this is wild plum (Prunus americana), I know it grows in the area. It's gotta be either that or some kind of crabapple. It's on a friend's land so I sure hope it's plum...

I'm pretty sure both the yellow and red fruit are the same species.

[upstatenybowyer]

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[DavidV]

I don't think it's prunus americana, the trees I've found had very slim twigs and the fruit looked more like small oblong cherries. There was also a layer of bronze colored bark right underneath the outer bark.

Could still be another plum, or prunus though. I'm not sure.

[DC]

If it's a plum it will have a stone in the fruit. If it's a crabapple it will have 4 or 5 seeds like an , wait for it, apple . Either one makes a good bow. Start cuttin'

[Danzn Bar]

either one "can" make a good bow.....
DBar

[upstatenybowyer]

I opened up a fruit and there was a pit-like casing with 2 seeds inside.

[Green Mountain Man]

Crabapple IMHO

[PatM]

  While  Plums and Apples have relation the fruit is different as DC says.

 Look at the end of the fruit. Plums, peaches, apricots, cherries and almonds are smooth, Apples and pears have the remnants of the flower on the end.

[Pat B]

Any leaves around the base to help ID it?

[PatM]

Could just take a bite of the fruit. 

[PatM]

May apple is a woodland plant. Thornapple is Hawthorne.

 I think you guys are looking too hard. You can't walk into the woods in our area without running into apple of some sort.

[Green Mountain Man]

http://www.pbase.com/hjsteed/foliage_crab_apple


Heres good site give you an idea why i say crabapple
Upstate im from,,ah upstate NY and i shoit every morning at a plum tree in my yard i highly doubt its plum,,but thats my opinon

[EdwardS]

That's crabapple, no doubt.  Spent wayyyy too much of my childhood climbing one to miss that ID.

[DC]

I opened up a fruit and there was a pit-like casing with 2 seeds inside.

Like an almond sort of? Sounds like a plum to me. Apples have a core, small but its a core. Bite one of the fruits, if it's an apple it will taste like an apple. Our crabapples are super appley, if that's a word. Remember though, I'm on the other side of the continent

[Eric Krewson]

Like Pat said, take a bite and clear up the mystery. I walk an exercise trail with red and yellow crabapples along the path, the trees look just like the ones in your pictures.