Red is the berry

[muckefuck]

An image from my stroll through the park with monshu last Sunday:



I'm not really sure what this is. Although they look like berries, the fruits are actually quite firm, so they're actually pomes. They're the right size to be haws, but the tree has no thorns. Moreover, notice the shape of the leaves: They're not serrated at all. So I suspect we're really dealing with some species of crabapple despite the small size.

This was in the eastern part, where the trees were pretty blah. I wanted to drag him down to the point to photograph some of the prettier ones, but the light wasn't great and he wanted to get back to his pot roast.

Comments

[parisgreen.livejournal.com]

Yes crabapple I think. Many of them do have very small fruit. We have one in our yard with fruit of this size, although not clustered quite that way, and yellow.

[areia.livejournal.com]

Some Google image searching came up with this link. I somehow always thought crabapples were bigger than that, closer in size to walnuts.

[nibadi.livejournal.com]

hast du dir jetzt eine digitale Camera zugelegt?
Gibt es denn noch was aus China zu sehen?

[lhn.livejournal.com]

The berries (or pomes) look really striking against the yellow-green leaves.

(These look a lot like some berries I took pictures of in Millennium Park a few weeks ago; I'd meant to ask you about them as my resident botany expert. If I remember, I'll post them when I get home.)

BTW, tell monshu to set the clock on his new camera. :-)