Are these crab apples?

vixki

Tons of these trees around here and they're packed full of fruit, are these crab apples? And can they be used to make jams?



Thanks

jamanda

They look like eating apples to me. Try one. Crab apples tend to be quite a bit smaller I think, judging from the photo.

sirbrainy

They are too small to be cooking apples, could be crab

Poppy9

I have a crab apple tree in my garden and they are small greenish, oval shaped apples.

moneysaverboy

crab apples can vary in size from large marble to small eating apple sized so it's sometimes hard to tell. However, if they're a decent size you can use them for cooking instead of cooking apples anyway, and they make really great jelly. You can even get crab apples that are deep red colour and look like big cherries, and they're the same colour all the way through!

sirbrainy

They are definitely edible

freezspirit

Oh I was going to say quince, but I could be wrong

Money_maker

Not quince - they are huge! When I first looked at piccy they looked like crab apples as they have the right sort of bunches. Looking again, not so sure - OP, how big are they?

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they look like one of the old varieties of apple. something almost like pigs snout, only smaller and not so curved. There are hundreds of old varieties so you may never find the type. Much too big for a crab apple. Nice find though and you`ll have to go by trial and error. They may want to hang on like the cider apples here and will not be ready to pick yet but take a few windfalls and taste a slice and then cook gently in a little water, they may or may not go mushy like cooking apples. If not jam then they should be nice in chutneys as well as apple pies

chubbster_1

nice find though - free food of any sort is good eh.

vixki

Thanks - they're definitely a sort of apple I think, they're not that big, ping pong ball/golf ball sized at biggest.

& they're definitely not quinces, we have a quince bush w/small quinces and it's got very different leaves.