Looks like crab apples to me too. We had them all over the place were I grew up in Ohio. Couldn't eat them, too tart and not sweet (I can't tell you how I know that, but I imagine at some point we did try to eat them). They might make wine, but I doubt it. Seems wine makers have made wine out of just about anything, but I've never heard of crab apple wine.
Haha- crabapple wine is my best white wine. However, crabapples for eating/winemaking aren't those little ornamental fruits- they are bigger than you'd think, and many people make those canned red rings from them. They taste great, but are a bit more tannic than regular apples.
But that fruit in the photo looks tiny, with a leaf like a cherry type of bush.
They were small, cherry sized, on the trees around my home when I was a kid. Must have been ornamentals. I think the birds liked them though.
I don't think I've ever seen the full-sized ones. Or if I did, I probably thought they were young apples.
Are they poisonous? Can I make wine with them?
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