Can you ID this little-red-fruit tree??

Hi everyone.
can you help me to Id this tree,
this extrange tree is growing beside a small river in the middle of the mountains, I haven't seen a lot of this trees, in fact it is the first tree of this kind that I see.
I asked for the name, and I google it in but I could find the scientific name.
I would appreciate if you could help with the scientific name please.
thanks!!!

Yes it appears to be a skittle tree.

Sorry. Just having fun...

That wasn't very helpful.

I can't really tell whether the fruit are growing on the vine or on the tree.

the fruits are definetely growing on the tree.

I'm gonna hazard a guess at some kind of coffee bush.

The fruit looks about right, but not the leaves . . .

How big are the leaves and fruits?

Hi, I don't post much, but check daily! The tree "almost" looks like my Jaboticaba would look if
mine was in fruit. It's very similar but I don't think that it's 100% match.
The bark is different....
Nice fruit though!

perhaps it is a Eugenia, there is a species native to Mexico. 'Acerola' is one of the common names for it. Cherry of the Rio Grande is another name for it. Don't let common names confuse you, it is not a 'true' cherry, not a Prunus.

unfortunately it is not a coffe bush, acerola neither jaboticaba.

the seize of the fruits is in average from 8mm to 1cm
the leaves mesure from 4 cm to 5cm.

I took some seeds because I want tto grow a tree, I think it would look nice as a bonsai

Prunus serotia......the Black Cherry.



Love and light

Andre Beaurain wrote:
Prunus serotia......the Black Cherry.
Love and light

NO, NOT prunus serotina... the leaves dont look serrated to me AND the 'cherries' would have to be on a long flowering stem, which i dont see here.
So that makes it impossible.

Could be in a family of Murraya

yves71277 wrote:

Andre Beaurain wrote:
Prunus serotia......the Black Cherry.
Love and light

NO, NOT prunus serotina... the leaves dont look serrated to me AND the 'cherries' would have to be on a long flowering stem, which i dont see here.
So that makes it impossible.

What!.... Yves 71277 ,you need glasses sweetie!

You wanne tell me this is not a Match?....

Fruit..

Leaves....

Bark.....


Love and light

O I forgot to say....check out the Red petiole....

Black cherry was almost a match, unfortunately It isn't the correct tree.
Yves 71277 is right the fruits wold have to be in along flowering stem, I'll post another foto so you can see how the fruits look from the distance.



besides I found another diference, the little stem that joins the fruit to the tree is diferent. In the blck cherry is covers a part of the fruit. It looks like a little flower, but in this tree is smaller not like a flower and it's divided in 3 parts. (the 2 two circles below)
finally I don't know if blck cherry has thorns but this tree does. I circled one thorn, it is the one above.




thanks for taking the time to check out!

Try Western Soapberry tree--sapindus drummondii...???

http://aggie-horticulture.tamu.edu/ornamentals/natives/sapindusdrummondii.htm

Could also be an invasive chinaberry...Melia azedarach:

http://www.texasinvasives.org/plant_database/detail.php?symbol=MEAZ

Andre Beaurain wrote:

yves71277 wrote:

Andre Beaurain wrote:
Prunus serotia......the Black Cherry.
Love and light

NO, NOT prunus serotina... the leaves dont look serrated to me AND the 'cherries' would have to be on a long flowering stem, which i dont see here.
So that makes it impossible.

What!.... Yves 71277 ,you need glasses sweetie!

You wanne tell me this is not a Match?....

Fruit..


Leaves....

Bark.....


Love and light

yes i say this is a non-match... and the pictures of the poster are not as clear as yours.
if you cant see the berries are NOT on long flowering stems, then try looking at the leaf nerves to see another obvious difference, compare those of your pics with the pics of the posters' and count em.

no need to shout at people and tell em they are sweeties that need glasses

we only need the poster to give us a bit more info, and preferrably more pics

no, it is not soapberry beacause the soapberry seeds are bigger and have a hard black seed inside.
and it isn't Melia beacause the Melia fruits are bigger and yellow, and they have 4 small seeds, the fruits of this tree have just one seed inside.

I have both of those trees that's why I'm sure it isn't one of them

yves71277 wrote:

at the leaf nerves to see another obvious difference, compare those of your pics with the pics of the posters' and count em.

....Vascular bundles in the leaf are called leaf veins, if you can show me two leaves with the exact same vascular pattern......then you need to get out of Oudenaarden, quickly.

no need to shout at people and tell em they are sweeties that need glasses

I was'nt shouting, HONEY.

we only need the poster to give us a bit more info, and preferrably more pics

If the leaf margin is entire...try the Alder Buckthorn, Frangula alnus, it does have the occational thorn.

Have a great weekend
Love and light

Andre Beaurain wrote:

yves71277 wrote:

at the leaf nerves to see another obvious difference, compare those of your pics with the pics of the posters' and count em.

....Vascular bundles in the leaf are called leaf veins, if you can show me two leaves with the exact same vascular pattern......then you need to get out of Oudenaarden, quickly.

no need to shout at people and tell em they are sweeties that need glasses

I was'nt shouting, HONEY.

we only need the poster to give us a bit more info, and preferrably more pics

If the leaf margin is entire...try the Alder Buckthorn, Frangula alnus, it does have the occational thorn.

Have a great weekend
Love and light

everybody knows their are small differences... it seems you have difficulty in accepting your guess was wrong, and rather shout at people who actually teach you something

Their is spelled there in your sentence.

Andre Beaurain wrote:Their is spelled there in your sentence.

Dear God...Andre...

Jim, Fiona, take care of him will ya, because he's flooding my pm too.
bye, i'm off for a good weekend :-)

Andre sweetie, "wasn't" in your sentence is punctuated "wasn't" and not "was'nt".

Now, PLEASE (and that's an emphasised plea rather than shouting) could we maybe all stop greetin' (Scottish dialect version of that word "greeting") and get on with helping the poor original poster with the identification as I for one would like to know what it is.

Please? Pretty please?

Alright, boys. Don't make Fiona send y'all out to pick your switch!


I don't know anything about the genus Frangula, but the species alnus ranges from the north-eastern half the USA into Cananda. These pictures were sent from Mexico. There is a west coast Frangula also, purshiana. Who knows how many others are lurking out there.

Until this mystery is solved "Skittles tree" works for me!

I liked the Skittles tree too. I'm going to PM David Brunner and see what his suggestion is. If The Cokerman don't know and Bro Beaurain is not 100% certain, then we need to pull in the big guns.

Question for Ahuehuete: is there any sort of botanical garden near you that you could take a sample of the tree to?