biwa
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(Please ID, have pic) Cherry tree with thorns?

Is there such a thing a cherry tree with nasty looking thorns like this? The thorns are sharp; one pricked me. They get longer and eventually become branches.

The leaves (not pictured) look very much like the leaves of a [url=https://www.cnr.vt.edu/dendro/dendrology/syllabus/factsheet.cfm?ID=66]black cherry tree[/url]. Very young leaves and twigs are red, and they turn normal colors (brownish trunk and green leaves) with age.

Let me know what you think this is.

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I have had a few different kinds of cherry trees in my time, but never one that had anything like thorns on it. Has your tree bourn fruit yet?

I understand that plum trees often have thorns. They're in the same family as cherry trees. I've never grown a plum tree, so know little to nothing about them.

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I second the plum possibility. I clip the sharp tips of the thorns on the lower limbs where the kids like to climb.

biwa
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Wow it's a plum tree? That's awesome! I'll transplant it to a better location then.

And no, it hasn't born fruit yet. I think it's about 2 years old.

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The Cherry Elaeagnus has thorns but the flowers are small and the fruit is very tart to taste.
The American Wild Plum has some very good thorns though as do many of the Wild plums. Remember they are related to the Blackthorns.
( Prunus spinosus ) The Sloe.

biwa
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This tree has gotten bigger, and now I'm pretty sure it's a hawthorn tree; because it has come to resemble the local hawthorns (thorny "cherry" trees that make brownish crabapple/crabpear-looking fruit).

Oops! Guess I should've shown you guys a picture of the leaves. They still look like cherry leaves to me, but maybe you guys would've been able to tell the difference.



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