I found a very strange fruit in my yard this morning. It came from the same tree that hazelnuts came from! (it may have been two different plants that grew together, it might not have been the same plant). I live in southwest british columbia, incase you need to know.
It smells a bit like a pumpkin, and is the size of a plumb. Here are two pictures:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/10542555@N07/1351866367/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/10542555@N07/1352755560/
2007-09-09 11:47:25 · 21 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Botany
it is not the first time strange things have appeared on that tree. two years ago it only grew pink flowers. then it stopped. then, during the winter, i found a crab apple (there are no more that have grown, just the one). This is the first year that there has been hazelnuts. The strange fruit I found is the first I've seen grow on that tree, too.
This is so wierd, what is it?
2007-09-09 11:49:49 · update #1
no, it is definitly not an apple. I am 100 percent sure of it, although i haven't tasted it. I don't know if its safe to taste yet!
2007-09-09 11:50:45 · update #2
i did some research on a quince - supposebly its native to western asia so i have no clue how it got in canada.
2007-09-09 11:57:17 · update #3
omg this is so not a fraud. i swear on my LIFE i am not making this up.
I did look at the tree again - it looks like there are several stumps so there are probably more than one type of plant.
I did look at the picture of the flowers that no longer grow - they did look quite similar but the leaves on the plant did not. There were many flowers two years ago, and now, long after the flowers died off, there is only one fruit. I don't get it. And this is not western asia :P
2007-09-09 12:06:15 · update #4
No, there were no hazelnuts last year. Only THIS year there was both hazelnuts and the fruit.
2007-09-09 12:08:13 · update #5
It looks like an unripe Quince
http://www.dkimages.com/discover/previews/974/50350612.JPG
http://www.sacatomato.com/Quince%20Photo.jpg
The tree for it can also have pink flowers like you described as well.
http://cache.eb.com/eb/image?id=11811&rendTypeId=4
UPDATE:
They grow in Mondata, USA so maybe they would grow there.
2007-09-09 11:56:53 · answer #1 · answered by Crunchy Sweet 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I agree that it's probably unripe quince. Many varieties have been brought to this country so I'm not surprised to see them growing there. Hazelnut trees don't have blooms that are pink, but quince does. It's quite possible that you have two trees growing intertwined together. While the quince my mother grew was just a flowering variety, it occassionally had apple-like fruit on it. I hear they make great preserves.
2007-09-09 17:49:11 · answer #2 · answered by kcpaull 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Definitely appears to be a quince based on the 2 photos; possibly dropped as a seed by a bird then developed next to the other plant.
2007-09-09 17:17:37 · answer #3 · answered by Neil R 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Are you really sure that what you saw the year before were hazelnuts??? This doesn't make sense. I love a good mystery, though! Even a good fraud!
2007-09-09 12:00:21 · answer #4 · answered by Dsonuvagun 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I thought at first it was a quince, but when I looked at the other photo and saw the seeds, I realized I was wrong.
Try sending your pics to the British R.H.S. They would know!
Then come back and tell us!
2007-09-09 11:55:47 · answer #5 · answered by jet-set 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It looks to be a seed pod. It will explode spraying seeds around to grow more trees.
It probably is not a fruit as the fruit would be annual.
2007-09-09 11:52:29 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
http://www.oplin.org/tree/fruit/fruit%20pages/117%20other%20fruit/otherfruit.html
this is a decent website to help i.d. the fruit, because you would need to put much more info up to be able to have us find it... a picture of the tree, the leaves, if the fruit grows from a single stalk, in clusters, ect ect ....
2007-09-09 12:11:46 · answer #7 · answered by unimatrix_42 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You must have a magic tree lol I have no clue I thought it was a mango at first then I saw the seeds!
2007-09-09 11:55:25 · answer #8 · answered by Daydreamer 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Thats really weird... I bet it's a magical tree. But maybe you could ask someone who does a lot of gardening. They might know.
2007-09-09 11:53:45 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It looks like the rare Kajunga fruit from the planet Xbrox.Must have dropped through the heavens to your home.
2007-09-09 11:54:18 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋