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| Cranberry-bush Viburnum amidst Buckthorn, Honeysuckle, Grape Vines, & Privet. | Closeup Cranberry-bush Viburnum |
Anyway, today I removed all of the the non-native vegetation from around this tree. So if these berries disappear soon, I'll claim responsibility.
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| Closeup of assumed crabapple | The whole little bush |
I've also come across several very thorny little bushes, barely more than single stalks, only a couple feet high, with a few short branches. These all seem to have a yellowish bark, to varying degrees. One has a single grape-size fruit, which you can see in the picture above. Googling showed crabapple (Malus spp.) as the most likely suspect, so that's what I'll call it for now. I'm surprised Ella our dog hasn't eaten it - she loves the crab apples that fall in our driveway during the winter and will even climb up on the snowbank to get to the ones in the tree.
[April 19: I've since found a lot of trees that look like various kinds of apple trees. One type of crab apple (Malus baccata) is considered to be invasive in the finger lakes region, so here's another set of trees to re-visit.]
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