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Wild Apple or Crabapple? Edible Fruit with Star-Shaped Core

A gardener had a tree with fruit like small apples (crabapples?). They previously identified dogwood bushes with blue berries.

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Expert Analysis

The fruit looks more like untended apple than crabapple. Apple: rounded teeth, fruit over 1 inch. Crabapple: short inch-long pointy branchlets/thorns. Both edible. Hawthorn and pear also similar and edible. The expert isn't comfortable recommending eating without specimen in hand. Cutting fruit through the fat part (not end to end) reveals a star-shaped core with seed chambers. Hawthorns have smooth long thorns; pears more elongated fruit; apples and pears have rounded teeth, apples hairier beneath.

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