Plant ID

[tree_ghost]

Found this while scouting this week. It didn't appear like anything was feeding on them but I'm curious as to what it is. Never seen one to my recollection. They any good for deer?

 

[mike243]

Looks like persimmon to me deer magnet

 

[JCDEERMAN]

Looks like a persimmon. Seems early for several of those to be ripe though. You didn't get a pic of the bark of the tree holding them did you? Hard to tell on the leaves

 

[casjoker]

I was thinking persimmons as well. I have a tree that has to be 40 feet tall dropping the same fruit. I also have a tree that I know is a persimmon tree, maybe 20' tall that drops a similar fruit but not for another month. The timing and ripeness of the fruit have me curious if they are persimmon trees.

 

[timberjack86]

Persimmon

 

[BSK]

I found a persimmon dropping early last weekend. However, fruit were not ripe (not orange). They were still purple.

 

[Tn Joe]

The bark doesn't look like any persimmon I've ever seen

 

[huvrman]

Persimmon. I've got 4 trees. 1 bearing now but fruit appears dried out. 2 not bearing, and 1 that was bearing but in the last week has decided to lean almost all the way over.

 

[tree_ghost]

These are NOT persimmons. I know them well. I haven't found any persimmons holding fruit this year. Late frost took its toll I believe. Usually persimmons begin dropping in mid to late September here but I located a grove of 10 or 11 last August that were dropping early. It was on a overlooked ridge just across the line from public. Had the 6 mature bucks bedded up there gorging themselves on them. The day they shed velvet all but one dispersed. The one that stayed now lives on my wall lol.

 

[tree_ghost]

First picture is the bark of the tree they are on.
This fruit is about half the size of persimmons I've seen in the past.

 

[tree_ghost]

The bark doesn't look like any persimmon I've ever seen

Me either

 

[Ballerski]

Mexican plum

 

[TN Song Dog]

^^^ Wild plum

 

[BSK]

First picture is the bark of the tree they are on.
This fruit is about half the size of persimmons I've seen in the past.

That bark is definitely NOT a persimmon. At least no persimmon variety I know of.

 

[BSK]

Mexican plum

I think we have a winner! Google "mexican plum bark". Looks like it.

 

[MickThompson]

Another vote for one of the wild plums. A few are known to grow in the central basin chinkapin oak-ash-cedar woods

 

[ZachMarkus]

Download the app "picture this" it has helped me a lot in identifying pants and trees I'm not familiar with.

 

[tree_ghost]

Mexican plum

Are they any account for the deer to feed on?
Google says deer like them but you know how those searches can yield varying results.

 

[redblood]

Here is persimmon bark. Its unmistakable

 

[Blackbullet]

The bark doesn't look like any persimmon I've ever seen

That's what I was thinking. Fruit looks like a persimmon but, it's very early for them to be falling from the tree. And the bark doesn't look like a persimmon. Is it possible that it's a wild plum or cherry? OP needs to see what the seed looks like, we will definitely know if it's a persimmon or not by seeing the seeds.

 

[Blackbullet]

These are NOT persimmons. I know them well. I haven't found any persimmons holding fruit this year. Late frost took its toll I believe. Usually persimmons begin dropping in mid to late September here but I located a grove of 10 or 11 last August that were dropping early. It was on a overlooked ridge just across the line from public. Had the 6 mature bucks bedded up there gorging themselves on them. The day they shed velvet all but one dispersed. The one that stayed now lives on my wall lol.

See what the seeds look like. That will help alot to possibly identify it.

 

[MickThompson]

The quickest way to settle the debate on whether or not it's a persimmon is to taste it. Summer persimmons are... unmistakeable.

 

[Blackbullet]

The quickest way to settle the debate on whether or not it's a persimmon is to taste it. Summer persimmons are... unmistakeable.

Absolutely. They will never forget that

 

[tn24]

 

[tree_ghost]

The quickest way to settle the debate on whether or not it's a persimmon is to taste it. Summer persimmons are... unmistakeable.

Lol I ain't no greenhorn

Looks like a "Mexican plum" tree from my google image search.

 

[megalomaniac]

agree, wild plum... deer love them, just haven't found them yet. They make some of the best plum jelly and plum cobbler. We used to have a few on my farms in middle TN and they are delicious.

I helped my buddy in SD plant 4000 trees this past May for windbreaks for pheasants on his land. Three rows out of the 12 we planted were wild plums for the soft mass for deer

 

[BSK]

Not just any wild plum, but Mexican Plum. Other wild plums have very different bark.

 

[JCDEERMAN]

I didn't realize the picture with tree bark was the actual tree holding them. I thought it was a picture showing all the fruit on the ground (you can see quite a few in the leaves). Yea, that's definitely not persimmon bark LOL. Never found or heard of a mexican plum.

 

[FTP]

These are NOT persimmons. I know them well. I haven't found any persimmons holding fruit this year. Late frost took its toll I believe. Usually persimmons begin dropping in mid to late September here but I located a grove of 10 or 11 last August that were dropping early. It was on a overlooked ridge just across the line from public. Had the 6 mature bucks bedded up there gorging themselves on them. The day they shed velvet all but one dispersed. The one that stayed now lives on my wall lol.

The second picture is clearly a persimmon, I live in Cheatham County and trees are loaded with em.

 

[Rem7600]

Persimmon tree, could be wrong but I can't see anything else it would be around here. Them deer do love them