Can someone help me Identify what kind of tree this is? It started growing in my yard about a year ago.
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Potatoes, Cornus leaves are opposite - these look at least alternately arranged, if not spirally alternate, which is more typical of Prunus.
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!potatoes! wrote:stonefruit maybe...the venation makes me think dogwood. are there little teeth around the edge of the leaves, or is it smooth?
No teeth, its smooth.
As it was growing last year. The color of the leaves were pink & red like the color of the stem. The leaves just recently turned green about a month ago.
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Potatoes - not all of them. I've got five types of plums in my yard, and only one of them is serrate (the Reina Claudia) - the others (Pembina, Sloe, Mirabel, Reina Victoria) are smooth.
However, I'm thinking that xyz's plant is closer in habit and growth to one of the cherries than it is to a plum, and cherries are widely variable in leaf shape and serration/nonserration.
However, I'm thinking that xyz's plant is closer in habit and growth to one of the cherries than it is to a plum, and cherries are widely variable in leaf shape and serration/nonserration.
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I did recall throwing some Cherry seeds on that spot a year ago, but I'm not sure. The leaves looks different from a Cherry.
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