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Can anyone ID this fruit tree please?
Many thanks.

Greengage?

Mirabelle ..

Looks like tasty small yellow wild plums/greengages growing abundantly in fields. I had seen a family picking these whilst eating them a couple of weeks ago - the tree had tons of yellow ripe fruit all over. I tasted one - nice and sweet but small compared to greengages, bright yellow with a plum like stone. Nice.

It is not quince as the leaves are more majestic with large hard fruit that needs to be cooked or made into cheese. I bought lots last year as they looked tasty but they were tough like boots when I tried to bite them Smells heavenly though. Google for recipe and it was made into cheese - so nice!

Yup it's a Mirabelle plum, they are much smaller than greengages - and much more yellow. I don't know why they fruit with such abundance in the UK when I have only had 2 fruit in 6 years from several trees (most of which we've got rid of now!). Or maybe they don't flower in February/March there like here which is rather early.

Cherry plum (Mirabelle/wild plum) has been a prolific year again. The bark is very dark to reddish black, it looks superb in flower (creamy white) in the spring.
The one in my hedge has dropped all it's fruit now, was planted about seven years ago (had no idea what it was then - just a seedling that we found) and now needs cutting back. The wood is hard and makes good walking sticks.

I think the more interesting question is ... why doesn't that plum roll off the table ?

snapdragon wrote:Cherry plum (Mirabelle/wild plum) has been a prolific year again. The bark is very dark to reddish black, it looks superb in flower (creamy white) in the spring.
The one in my hedge has dropped all it's fruit now, was planted about seven years ago (had no idea what it was then - just a seedling that we found) and now needs cutting back. The wood is hard and makes good walking sticks.

Mirabelle plums (as we know them in France) are something completely different to what we call Merisier (= wild cherry), which has the bark you are talking about. Mirabelles just have a boring grey bark. But then one is a cherry and one is a plum.

It makes a mean wine!

haha i thought it was a small sicilian blood orange but guess i'm wrong

Looks like the cherry plum up the road that we scrumped the other day and they tasted of pure honey....nom nom!

As mirabelle is as good as round.

What is this one then ?, it is round (about the same size) with a definite titty bit at the bottom.

This also stops it rolling off the table.

Wow! Wasnt expecting so many replies, thanks very much for your help!
Liking the idea of making wine from them

I thought under ripe greengage, but may well be mirabelle, either way if you have a tree of them you are in for a treat!

Agreed, looks like a Mirabelle - I love them :) Back in my childhood I practically lived on the Mirabelle tree on the neighbouring empty ground - I did all my homework there, reading books, etc *chuckle* And in summer/autumn I had the added advantage of having food right under my nose!