Need help to identify tree
My husband and I purchased an older home in Sacramento, Ca last fall. There is a deciduous tree that had green leaves before they dropped. To our surprise, in early spring the tree was inundated with beautiful pink blossoms about the size of a half dollar. When the leaves opened, they were a reddish plum color and curled before they flatten out. The tree is now shades of dark plum and moss green and has a fuzzy almond shape fruit or nut that is also plum and green in color. Does anyone know what this tree is? Thank you for any help.
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Here a photo
Hope this link will work. I haven't attached a photo before.
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It looks very much like a plum tree. Depending on where you are in Sacramento, your house was built over an old orchard.
We lived in Rancho Cordova when I was in 3rd and 4th grade (military family), and there was still an orchard at the end of the street and an empty field across the street where there are now a community college and a high school.
I make plum chutney and Chinese-style plum sauce regularly, since my MIL's next-door neighbor has a plum tree.
And, of course, when we visit during plum season (July and early August in Palo Alto), there's the requisite amount of eating plums over the kitchen sink!
Cynthia H.
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We lived in Rancho Cordova when I was in 3rd and 4th grade (military family), and there was still an orchard at the end of the street and an empty field across the street where there are now a community college and a high school.
I make plum chutney and Chinese-style plum sauce regularly, since my MIL's next-door neighbor has a plum tree.
And, of course, when we visit during plum season (July and early August in Palo Alto), there's the requisite amount of eating plums over the kitchen sink!
Cynthia H.
Sunset Zone 17, USDA Zone 9
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Cynthia, could we still be talking an almond? Same family, right?
(I could not get into that other image, but this sounded familiar...)
HG
(I could not get into that other image, but this sounded familiar...)
HG
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Scott Reil
If you look at the first image url (just copy/paste from the first https:// to the first .jpg), you'll see that the leaves appear in the typical plum "cluster," and that they're the dark shades more customary to plum trees.
It's of course *possible* that it's an almond, since both are grown in the San Joaquin Valley, but the leaf color and clustering/sharing of future abscission points looks more plum-like to me.
Both are yummy!
Cynthia
It's of course *possible* that it's an almond, since both are grown in the San Joaquin Valley, but the leaf color and clustering/sharing of future abscission points looks more plum-like to me.
Both are yummy!
Cynthia
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