This is a japanese plum tree (or so I’ve been told) and these little orange things are the plums. I’m surprised these are still here. The rascally little squirels always get to them first! When we lived on Hilton Head there was a HUGE plum tree on our walk to the beach. I would never have guessed the fruit was edible, but one day on our walk there was a woman picking them off the tree. When we asked her what it was she told us it was a japanese plum and that the fruit made excellent jam. I was excited to discover we had one here, but I don’t think I would ever be gutsy enough to to try and make jam out of it. What if it really is poisonous? I should take a wilderness survival class. Not that you make jam in those classes, but I think if I was ever stranded on a desert island I’d be screwed.
I love those things! We had those trees all over our ward building grounds and I think we had one on the side of our house too (in Orlando). The kids used to climb the trees after church and eat the fruit 🙂