Tree for ID - 120711 - RK - 1

[ranjini kamath]

Request Id.I got the pic of flower only at end of flowering season.I thought this could be Peach but do not think so .These  fruits fall off at a very early stage.Pics taken March - April 2011 at Los Altos,California.
Thank you
 Ranjini Kamath

[Satish Chile]

Seems to be Averrhoa carambola ?

--
Dr. Satish Kumar Chile

[Ushadi micromini]

Not carambola...its fruits look like carambola from day 1,
since the ovary is star shaped in cross section, can even have the
anther attached to its top even when tiny and when sepals and petals
have just fallen off.... the "fruits" (if they are fruits and not
flower buds )
are like any pit bearing fruit...peach may be...

We have several here in the Hort garden... and we had to study them
in one of our amateurs' classes a few years ago...

DO WE HAVE ANY COLD WEATHER FRUIT EXPERT IN EFLORA?


Usha di
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On Jul 12, 4:07 pm, Satish Chile <chilesat...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Seems to be *Averrhoa carambola ?*

[ranjini kamath]

Usha di These are definitely not flower-buds.In prime flowering time
the branches are fully laden with blooms.Was lucky to find a few last
flowers of the season.Have given one more photo.Hope it will be useful.
Regards
Ranjini Kamath

[Ushadi micromini]

If they are not flower buds, then this tree defenitely is not
carambaola...since your tree's "fruits" are round in circumferential
ouline and not star shaped...
Usha di

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On Jul 13, 8:57 am, ranjini kamath <ranjin...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Usha di   These are definitely not flower-buds.In prime flowering time
> the branches are fully laden with blooms.Was lucky to find a few last
> flowers of the season.Have given one more photo.Hope it will be useful.
> Regards
>  Ranjini Kamath
>

> On 7/13/11, Ushadi micromini <microminipho...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Not carambola...its fruits look like carambola from day 1,
> > since the ovary is star shaped in cross section, can even have the
> > anther attached to its top even when tiny and when sepals and petals
> >  have just fallen off....   the "fruits" (if they are fruits and not
> > flower buds )
> >  are like any  pit bearing fruit...peach may be...
>
> > We have several here in the Hort garden... and we had to study them
> >  in one of our amateurs' classes a few years ago...
>
> > DO WE HAVE ANY COLD WEATHER FRUIT EXPERT IN EFLORA?
>
> > Usha di
> > ====
>
> > On Jul 12, 4:07 pm, Satish Chile <chilesat...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> Seems to be *Averrhoa carambola ?*
>
> >> On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 2:53 PM, ranjini kamath <ranjin...@gmail.com>
> >> wrote:
> >> > Request Id.I got the pic of flower only at end of flowering season.I
> >> > thought this could be Peach but do not think so .These  fruits fall off
> >> > at a
> >> > very early stage.Pics taken March - April 2011 at Los Altos,California.
> >> > Thank you
> >> >  Ranjini Kamath
>
> >> --
> >> Dr. Satish Kumar Chile
>
>
>

>  IMG_8820-ph.jpg
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[J.M. Garg]

Forwarding again for Id confirmation or otherwise please.

Some earlier relevant feedback:

“Seems to be Averrhoa carambola ?--
Dr. Satish Kumar Chile”

 

“Not carambola...its fruits look like carambola from day 1, since the ovary is star shaped in cross section, can even have the

anther attached to its top even when tiny and when sepals and petals  have just fallen off....   the "fruits" (if they are fruits and not
flower buds )
 are like any  pit bearing fruit...peach may be...

We have several here in the Hort garden... and we had to study them  in one of our amateurs' classes a few years ago...

DO WE HAVE ANY COLD WEATHER FRUIT EXPERT IN EFLORA?” from Ushadi.

 

“Usha di   These are definitely not flower-buds.In prime flowering time the branches are fully laden with blooms.Was lucky to find a few last flowers of the season.Have given one more photo.Hope it will be useful.
Regards
 Ranjini Kamath”

 

"If they are not flower buds, then this tree defenitely is not carambaola...since your tree's "fruits" are round  in circumferential
ouline and not star shaped...
Usha di"

--

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[Yazdy Palia]

Does not look like Averhoa carambola to me. Here are my pictures of A
carambola.
Regards
Yazdy.

[Gurcharan Singh]

If all photographs of Kamath ji belong to same tree, then definitely it is not peach. The leaves of 4th photograph do look like Apricot, 2nd photograph could well be young fruits of apricot, but not the flower in first photograph which looks cauliflorous.

-- 
Dr. Gurcharan Singh
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SGTB Khalsa College, University of Delhi, Delhi-110007
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[Saroj Kumar Kasaju]

Please check Prunus mume (Siebold) Siebold & Zucc.

Thank you

Saroj Kasaju