Common fruit trees in our area:
 

 

 

Apple:

123

Cherry:

123

Chokecherry:

123

Crabapple:

123

  • An apple (Malus) is considered a crabapple if the diameter of its fruit is 2 inches (5 cm) or less.   There are some 20-30 crabapple species.   Crabapples are usually cross-fertile and freely hybridize, a plant breeders dream.   The number of crabapple types (cultivars) is unknown, but it may be near 900, according to T. L. Green (Amer. Horticulturist. Feb., 1996), and some 200 are available from nursery sources.

 

  • Deciduous tree, 15-20 ft (4.5-6 m), rounded, dense.  Leaves alternate, simple, glossy dark green, usually partially lobed.  Flowers single, crimson in bud, opening rose-pink, about 3 cm wide; fruit dark red.

 

  • Sun.

 

  • Hardy to USDA Zone (4) 5     From a cross of M. hallinana × M. sieboldii.
  • atrosanguinea: dark, somewhat brownish red.

 

 

 

 

Plum:

123

  • Broadleaf deciduous shrub or small tree, often spreading and forming large clumps, a single trunk may grow to 15-25+ ft (~4.5-7.5 m) tall, young stems bear thorn-tipped dwarf shoots.  Leaves alternate, simple, obovate to oblong-ovate, 6-10 cm long, tip acuminate, base rounded or broad wedge-shaped, sharply and doubly serrate, dark green, without hairs (glabrous) or pubescent on the midrib below; petiole without glands.  Flowers in clusters of 2-5, white (5 rounded petals), 2-3 cm across, slightly unpleasant odor, glabrous pedicel, blooms before or with expaniing leaves.  Fruit yellow to red, rounded, about 2.5 cm long, with yellow flesh, sweet or sour, ripens in June in the south but in August or even as late as early October in the north; used for jams and jellies.

 

  • Sun to part shade.  Tough plant, trives with neglect.

 

  • Hardy to USDA Zone 3      Native range from Massachucetts to southen Ontario and Manitoba, extreme southeastern Saskatchewan, south to Montana, the Dakotas, Utah, New Mexico and Georgia.

 

 

 

 

Cherry:

123

 

 

 

Common problems with Fruit trees:

 

 

Insects:

 

Aphids      
 

 


Aphids feed by sucking up plant juices through a food channel in their beaks. At the same time, they inject saliva into the host. Light infestations are usually not harmful to plants, but higher infestations may result in leaf curl, wilting, stunting of shoot growth, and delay in production of flowers and fruit, as well as a general decline in plant vigor. Some aphids are also important vectors of plant diseases, transmitting pathogens in the feeding process.

A sticky glaze of honeydew may collect on lower leaves, outdoor furniture, cars, and other objects below aphid feeding sites. Honeydew coated objects soon become covered by one or more brown fungi known as sooty molds. Crusts of sooty mold are unsightly on man-made objects, and they can interfere with photosynthesis in leaves.

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