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Sorry top pic is sideways!
This plant self-seeded in my front garden a few years ago. I doubt the shape of the plant will be of much use as I have to brutally prune it into a lollipop shape, partly because it's near the pavement and also if it had to fight the street sycamore for water it would lose. It has smallish white blossom that looks a bit like apple but they don't come in clumps. The blossom comes after the leaves Last year I missed a bit at the back and one berry grew. It was on a stalk like a cherry and was a peachy orange colour. It was the size of a cherry tomato and had a similar skin. New growth is usually a translucent bronzey /yellow colour.
Does anyone know what it might be?
In London. Keen but lazy.
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Possibly a cherry-plum http://www.woodlandtrust.org.uk/visiting-woods/trees-woods-and-wildlife/british-trees/common-non-native-trees/cherry-plum/
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I think you're spot on Dove! Had a look at the bark and it looks like grey tiger bread. I wonder where it came from. Birds I suppose.
Yes, it'll be birds.
There's a lot of cherry-plums around here - they're lovely and make good jam or pie fillings if you can get enough - treat them like the French mirabelle plums.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Unfortunately I can't allow it to get too big where it is. Do you think a cutting would work or should I hope for a sucker? Then I could plant another where it can grow properly
It's a prunus - my guess is that it'll sucker freely - especially if you disturb the roots a bit.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.