It looks like an apple with a very dull, pale matte-green finish, the fruit is very hard and looks apple-esque on the inside. Grown on a short thorny bush. recently come into fruit.
2007-08-24 22:26:52 · 6 answers · asked by Old Gregg 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Botany
If the thorny bush has little short curved thorns then it's probably a rose (wild or cultivated). If it has long straight thorns then it's probably a hawthorne or maybe crabapple but it would have a central trunk (trying to grow like a tree).
The curved thorns would be rose hips. These are the fruit of various kinds of roses. They look like hard little apples and have a great deal of vitamin-C. Put your finger against the pulp of the 'apple' and then taste it. Chances are if it's sour-ish, then it's rose hips. If it's bitter, it's a different one like hawthorne or crabapple.
2007-08-25 03:55:55 · answer #1 · answered by zen 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's a crab-apple or a quince.
Sloes is a really AWFUL answer. I also don't see how anyone could mistake a Datura for an apple.
2007-08-25 09:08:57 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
I think they might be Crab Apples, but I'm not 100% sure of that.
2007-08-24 22:37:14 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Sounds like a wild? 'species' pear, I have one with wicked one inch shiny black thorns. RScott
2007-08-24 22:59:42 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Maybe thorn apple (aka datura)? http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/go/14/
Not quite sure but this sounded close...
2007-08-24 22:37:09 · answer #5 · answered by Insomniac Butterfly 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Sloes??
2007-08-24 22:30:59 · answer #6 · answered by Sal*UK 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋