# Help with identifying this tree **URL:** \ **Category:** Q & A\ **Created:** [May 13, 2022, 10:55pm UTC](https://forum.comoxvalleyhortsociety.ca/t/help-with-identifying-this-tree/1015 "2022-05-13T22:55:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Brandy](https://forum.comoxvalleyhortsociety.ca/user_avatar/forum.comoxvalleyhortsociety.ca/brandy/32/745_2.png) [@Brandy](https://forum.comoxvalleyhortsociety.ca/u/Brandy)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2022, 10:55pm UTC](https://forum.comoxvalleyhortsociety.ca/t/help-with-identifying-this-tree/1015/1 "2022-05-13T22:55:59Z")
Hey all, Hoping to get some help to identify this could be fruit tree in my garden. I moved into this house a year and a half ago, so I’m still figuring things out. I’ve dove done research online, it could a wild fruit tree that won’t bare fruit, and in that case I’ll have to try to prune it back for now. Any advice, recommendations, info is appreciated! Thanks, Brandy ![image](https://forum.comoxvalleyhortsociety.ca/uploads/default/original/1X/eebe03cb1b2b32994f50ffbd664d7ae4c50593a6.jpeg) ![image](https://forum.comoxvalleyhortsociety.ca/uploads/default/original/1X/ff5ccd18a3425e2d8d3780b0dd589c6844aede1e.jpeg) ![image](https://forum.comoxvalleyhortsociety.ca/uploads/default/original/1X/fe8ef609c63b9f9c0a962dd2f121463344040e20.jpeg) ![image](https://forum.comoxvalleyhortsociety.ca/uploads/default/original/1X/5ab9e9478dbf3592ed5ebc10b13ee80264ee5687.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![Bteam](https://forum.comoxvalleyhortsociety.ca/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/bbce88/32.png) [@Bteam](https://forum.comoxvalleyhortsociety.ca/u/Bteam)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2022, 2:40pm UTC](https://forum.comoxvalleyhortsociety.ca/t/help-with-identifying-this-tree/1015/2 "2022-05-14T14:40:01Z")
Might be a Quince. They have big thorns. Should have pink to red flowers and should have flowered already or now if it is. ---
**Author:** ![Brandy](https://forum.comoxvalleyhortsociety.ca/user_avatar/forum.comoxvalleyhortsociety.ca/brandy/32/745_2.png) [@Brandy](https://forum.comoxvalleyhortsociety.ca/u/Brandy)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2022, 2:53pm UTC](https://forum.comoxvalleyhortsociety.ca/t/help-with-identifying-this-tree/1015/3 "2022-05-14T14:53:27Z")
Yes no flowers on it last summer or this year either so far. ---
**Author:** ![Bteam](https://forum.comoxvalleyhortsociety.ca/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/bbce88/32.png) [@Bteam](https://forum.comoxvalleyhortsociety.ca/u/Bteam)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2022, 7:49pm UTC](https://forum.comoxvalleyhortsociety.ca/t/help-with-identifying-this-tree/1015/4 "2022-05-14T19:49:01Z")
another possibility would be a Firethorn. It would have masses of white flowers followed by red or orange berries that the robins love to eat. I don’t think people eat them. ---
**Author:** ![Rosie](https://forum.comoxvalleyhortsociety.ca/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/5daacb/32.png) [@Rosie](https://forum.comoxvalleyhortsociety.ca/u/Rosie)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2022, 8:01pm UTC](https://forum.comoxvalleyhortsociety.ca/t/help-with-identifying-this-tree/1015/5 "2022-05-14T20:01:22Z")
It might be the rootstock of a fruit tree that died, either in your yard or the neighbours yard. It looks a lot like the rootstock that sprouted when my almond tree died. Thorny and vigorous. I cut the little tree down when it died, and the rootstock grew. Very vigorous growth, I left it too long and it was a heck of a job to get it out this spring. Have a look and see if you can see anything that looks like it’s been cut back that might suggest a tree that died. Hopefully I’m wrong and it’s one of the other suggestions made here:) ---
**Author:** ![Rosie](https://forum.comoxvalleyhortsociety.ca/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/5daacb/32.png) [@Rosie](https://forum.comoxvalleyhortsociety.ca/u/Rosie)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2022, 8:02pm UTC](https://forum.comoxvalleyhortsociety.ca/t/help-with-identifying-this-tree/1015/6 "2022-05-14T20:02:58Z")
My rootstock growth had no flowers. ---
**Author:** ![Greenthumbgranny](https://forum.comoxvalleyhortsociety.ca/user_avatar/forum.comoxvalleyhortsociety.ca/greenthumbgranny/32/305_2.png) [@Greenthumbgranny](https://forum.comoxvalleyhortsociety.ca/u/Greenthumbgranny)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2022, 10:04pm UTC](https://forum.comoxvalleyhortsociety.ca/t/help-with-identifying-this-tree/1015/7 "2022-05-14T22:04:00Z")
I’m going to say it’s a pyracantha as it looks just like mine. White flowers, red berries that the birds love. It can take a huge amount of pruning so I hack at mine every fall to keep it in shape ![image](https://forum.comoxvalleyhortsociety.ca/uploads/default/original/1X/e8d682f5595d5c04ece87b148323f8841db35316.jpeg) and to keep it out of the neighbours yard. ---
**Author:** ![Brandy](https://forum.comoxvalleyhortsociety.ca/user_avatar/forum.comoxvalleyhortsociety.ca/brandy/32/745_2.png) [@Brandy](https://forum.comoxvalleyhortsociety.ca/u/Brandy)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2022, 12:31am UTC](https://forum.comoxvalleyhortsociety.ca/t/help-with-identifying-this-tree/1015/8 "2022-05-15T00:31:21Z")
Wow that’s so pretty! Love how you’ve pruned it. ---
**Author:** ![lorna.doucette](https://forum.comoxvalleyhortsociety.ca/user_avatar/forum.comoxvalleyhortsociety.ca/lorna.doucette/32/32_2.png) [@lorna.doucette](https://forum.comoxvalleyhortsociety.ca/u/lorna.doucette)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2022, 2:52pm UTC](https://forum.comoxvalleyhortsociety.ca/t/help-with-identifying-this-tree/1015/9 "2022-05-15T14:52:18Z")
Wow! This is gorgeous!