It might be a stupid question, but what is this fruit tree? I am guessing apple or cherry? These photos were taken this morning. Last year, there was no flowering/ fruiting because ants and aphids sucked up the tree saps, causing the leaves to curl inward. This spring, there are some tiny green flying bugs attracted to this tree.
It's a cherry. I'm a little surprised by the bronze new leaves, but it still looks like Prunus avium of some sort. I can't tell if it's a cultivar - if it will produce cherries that will be good to eat (by humans - you seem to have your answer for the rest of the animal kingdom).
Thanks for the identification. Does the bronze new leaves indicate any tree disease? I am trying to fix this cherry tree. Could you suggest any method to make it healthier and pest-proof?
I can't offer advice, but the bronze leaves look ok. Some cherry cultivars just do open with bronze leaves. I didn't think it was the case for Prunus avium, but now that my brain kicks in, I realize I do know of one - here's a link to Schmitt Cherry, an ornamental P. avium hybrid.
Are you sure that it is a fruiting variety? To me the large single white to very pale pink flowers and heavily veined leaves that are bronze when young suggest the ornamental cherry cultivar 'Taihaku' ( http://www.photosbotanical.com/img15390.htm ).
It's the curled back sepals I was going by, even on the blossoms just opening, not characteristic of most of the ornamentals, except for the avium hybrid ones. Also the pole-shape of the tree. Well, and these flowers look like they're in umbels; 'Tai Haku' should be in corymbs. I was also guessing these blossoms to be around 3cm or less in diameter, whereas 'Tai Haku' would be more like 5-6cm.
