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Sam Eddy
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Hello!

Hoping someone could help me identify this tree on our new property. Want to make sure the berries aren't poisonous to our pups.

Thanks!

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Hi Sam, welcome to Permies. Possibly a cherry tree? It's a little hard for me to tell, but that's my guess.

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Would that not be a medlar - Mespilus germanica? I'm not 100% on it, as I don't grow one myself. The fruit is probably still growing.
 
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It might be a medlar, It might be some sort of apple or pear. I really don't think it could be a quince. I is not a cherry/plum/apricot/sloe/peach/nectarine, but it is in the rose family. Cut one open cross-wise to find out for sure wether or not this is a pomme fruit. You can send a picture of that if you need further help.
 
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Thank you all for your responses! I should have mentioned that this is in southeast Wisconsin. I apologize for the quality of the pictures. I would go take better ones, but the house we're moving to with this tree is an hour and a half away, so I can't exactly just buzz out there.

I've attached two additional pictures. The first one is a zoomed in shot of one of previous pictures I sent. The second one is a picture I found online of a serviceberry. Is it possibly a serviceberry?
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Crab apple?  The leaves certainly look like apple leaves.  

There are all sorts of different kinds of crab apples.  

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Looks like a crabapple tree to me. But the size of the fruit may help. Serviceberries aka Saskatoon berries aka June berry and on are tasty, sweet, and are about the size of a blueberry. Crabapples are larger and crisper. Mini mini apples that are often quite tart for a long time. Some sweeten, some don't. If of the tastier type of crabapple they are awesome to add to jelly and jam making experiments because they are high in pectin. The trees are super beautiful in the spring, with lovely blossoms.
 
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Looking at the pictures, I do think it is an apple. It may have come from a seed. These should help you make sure it is not(or maybe it is) a service berry (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berry_%28botany%29,https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pome). Do try to get your hands on the book entitled "botany in a day". It is wonderfully thorough on covering plant families.
 
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The thing with Saskatoons is they usually have a very shrubby appearance: Saskatoons at a U-Pick.

However, yours may be trained to one trunk, like a crabapple tree, which is of itself very cool.
 
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Whatever it is, I would stake my reputation on it being edible... it's in the rose family.
 
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Hester Winterbourne wrote:Whatever it is, I would stake my reputation on it being edible... it's in the rose family.

Hey that's very cool. I don't think I knew that before.

Here's a few pics of my crabapple, that look a lot like the pics here:

 
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Flowering Crabapple -- an ornamental tree that can be used as a pollinator tree for an apple orchard.
 
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Barbara Martin wrote:[C]an be used as a pollinator tree for an apple orchard.


Or eaten, or grafted onto!

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Did you ever figure it out?  I see the post is 5 years old.  Did the previous owners not know?  For future reference, a clear close-up of the bark, a leaf and the fruit with something for scale, like a coin would make it much easier to ID.
 
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