Can you identify this tree?
This weekend some friends and I went up to Madison County, just over the Bollinger County line, to take part in Pioneer Days in the quaint little village of Marquand. (Population 430 or so, except during this time of year, when it must easily double.)
While we were there, my friend Emma and I were very curious about two small trees growing in the square. The rest of our party walked on around on the new brick sidewalk, but she and I stood like a couple of real yokels, trying to figure out the identity of those trees.
I took a photo of the fruit, which was most curious. They weren't exactly what I'd call berries, but they weren't quite crabapples, as we first thought. Emma wondered if it was a paw paw tree.
I admit to living dangerously, because we took a taste of the fruit and found that it had a sweet, tasty golden pulp, which was so full of seeds that I can't imagine it being very practical for much of anything!
Another strange characteristic was the bumps all over the fruit, giving it a sort of pin cushion effect.
Emma even stopped the city police officer, who was driving by in his squad car (further embarrassing our friends), but he didn't know what it was either. Like us, he took a bite. Emma and I are okay tonight, so I assume he survived, as well.
Does anybody know what this tree/bush is??
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My dogs race me for the persimmons on my driveway every evening when I get home. I pick up six or so, eat one, feed one to Bucky, eat one, feed one to Sassy....on & on, till they're all gone. They think the persimmons taste better if I give them one, rather than their picking them up off the ground themselves!