Please help me to identify this tree

[apple799]

Please help me to identify this tree. Thank you for your help!

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[cynthia_h]

Great photos! The close-ups are very helpful. So helpful that my tentative ID crashed and burned based on the close-up of the leaves.

However, since I live in the same county as you do, I know that there are "street trees" in our towns. Each town/city in Contra Costa County decides on its street trees; those are the ones it will support (sort of, by not fining homeowners for planting them). Call the Planning Dept. in San Ramon and ask them what the street tree is for your address; if they don't know, they should be able to refer you to someone who does.

Good luck! And please let us know what the tree is, too. Thank you!

Cynthia H.
Sunset Zone 17, USDA Zone 9

[bullthistle]

They sure do strange things in CA but that's why it is so much debt. I have never seen trees staked so tightly you'd think someone was afraid they might fly away.

[cynthia_h]

(Don't even get me started on the theories of tree-staking popular out here...I just want to take cutters of whatever kind needed and release the poor trees from their bonds.)

A developer has the right to install approved "street trees" when new houses are built. The city approves the developer's "street trees" based on long-term water needs of said trees, probable/possible threats to sidewalks/foundations, and the like. If a homeowner wants to plant an additional tree in the verge or if the original street tree dies and the homeowner wants to replace it with another kind of tree (maybe a fruit tree or just a prettier tree), and OMG! it's not on the city's approved street tree list, the homeowner gets to support City Hall with a fine. In El Cerrito, the fine is...$250 yes Two Hundred and Fifty Dollars for planting a non-authorized street tree.

But all of the planting is done with private dollars. Only the penalty dollars go to the city.

But I still don't know what this particular street tree in San Ramon is....

Cynthia

[neil17]

If I'm not mistaken that is a loquat, japanese plum eatible too. Pretty tasty if they get small yellow orange fruit in the spring that have large brown seeds in them then thats it.

[thanrose]

My loquats do not have bark like that: it's smoother. Leaves here are rougher looking, as in more deeply textured both surfaces, the tops will look more corrugated, the bottoms will be pilose and paler, sometimes creamy color, sometimes rusty. The serrations are not as pronounced either. Could be regional variations, I suppose,

[thanrose]

I'm wondering if it is a Castanea spp, or some sort of chestnut/chinkapin. They can have decent attributes for a street tree in habit of growth, except any fruiting/nut bearing tree could be a nuisance. The leaves look more chestnut to me, but the bark I don't know.