Mespil tree
These are sometimes confused with bird cherries.
Features of mespil trees
- flowers: in open spikes
- styles: 5
- seeds: 4-10
- ripe fruit: up to 1cm long, skin with a greyish waxy bloom, sepals remain at the apex
Mespil tree.
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Mespil flowers arranged in open spikes.
Amelanchier (mespil) fruit.
© Mary Ellen Harte, Bugwood.org
Flower with five styles.
Mespil fruit with 4–10 seeds and long sepals.
Features of cherry trees
- flowers in clusters with stalks all arising from a central point, or arranged along a short stem, or in spikes
- styles: 1
- seeds: 1
- ripe fruit: less than 2cm long with a smooth apex
- bark with raised horizontal lines or bands of pores (lenticels)
