Copper Beech Tree fruit?

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  1. janet52

    janet52 Member

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    I bought copper beech tree approx 10 years ago and for the first time ever it is bearing fruit,looks like a cherry tastes like a plum, is this normal?
     
  2. woodschmoe

    woodschmoe Active Member 10 Years

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    Your tree sounds more like Prunus cerasifera, AKA Cherry Plum, Purple leaf plum. Might have been mislabelled on account of the purple leaf. Definitely not a beech: beech fruit is a nut, in a hairy burr.
     

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