do ornamental plums/cherries produce any fruit at all?

Question

They are created by plant breeders to bloom beautifully in the spring, but I understand they don't produce fruit. So the flowers just shrivel up and that's it? Not even little, tiny fruit? That seems weird to me. If anyone has these trees, what have you seen?

Answer 1

They all produce fruit but it is either very small, or aborted before getting big enough to see. Even if the fruit were larger, it would be inedible.

Answer 2

I have seen some very small fruit on flowering crab trees, they are not edible. Our flowering Almond is very pretty in full bloom but no fruit.
These trees are grown for their looks, not for the fruit.

Answer 3

why are you trimming a tree on the worst conceivable time?.... with each and each and every of the themes this tree seems to have, i ought to be terrified to grant it yet another one.... the tree is generating fruit because it is notably optimistic that is lack of life.... it is age, the termites, pruning on the incorrect time of 12 months, and so on are all tremendous stressors.... and it is actual, the tree IS up there in age and doesn'thave countless years left..... what develop into used for the termites... which could make me verify even if to even imagine about eating fruit off the tree now..... you fertilizing it did not reason the fruit... that befell some time previous in spring.... I doubt the tree is 'thriving'... better likely it is giving it is 'very last hurrah'......

Answer 4

Not that you would want to eat. That is why they are called ornamental. They are for show, not eating of their fruits. Some may have some very small thing you could call fruit but not normally.

Answer 5

No you will never receive edible fruits from ornamental trees.

Answer 6

no they will somtimes produce a small round thing that never develops into fruit but just falls off

Answer 7

Pretty blooms and lots of mess but I dearly love them anyway because they are the first of spring. :-)