I have a bush in my back yard. It's pretty tall, I'd say about 7 ft. It has short, straight thorns on it. It is a bush and not a tree and it bears these small, green apples with a little blush of red. I have two of them that I found on the whole bush so far. I've tried to look it up somewhere and I see people talking about crabapple, thornapple, quince, and a couple others. Looking them up online, the pictures of these do not match the bush. Can anyone help?
hey eric, my understanding is that shipova is actually pear x whitebeam (a kind of mountain ash)...not that this changes anything about growing them...
i've got one too, but it's in a pot 'cause we're gonna have to move soon.
I knew it was Whitebeam. I should have confirmed my hawthorn thinking. Funny thing is I brought it up at my brother's last night and he didn't correct me. He usually catches these things.
i like the documentation that shipova can be grafted onto OHxF rootstock (which i already have)...in a few years, i will have considerably more than one shipova...nice.