Fruit tree ID pls
 

Another question for y'all...

When I was growing up in Avoyelles parish we had a medium size tree with scaly bark and stickers on branches. It produced a fruit about the size of a cherry tomato, but very similar to an apples texture. They were green, then turned red splotchy, and we'd start climbing and eating like crazy until they turned full red, then soft. We had bare feet like leather then, LOL. Dang tree looked like a bunch of monkeys with us perched up there feeding!

We called them ja jums best I can type... 50 years later and I never learned anything more about them.. Anybody?

Persimmon? Total shot in the dark

Crab apple? Another shot in the dark

Aren't persimmons a good bit bigger than a cherry tomato? My grandpa has had a tree forever and I have still to this day never tried one.

Possibly a mayhaw tree??
https://www.mayhaw.net/Articles.asp?ID=131

Guava?
or Jujubee?

I guess it depends on the tree. I picked some this past year that averaged the size of cherry tomatoes.
Supposedly them persimmons are good when ripe but they have to be almost mushy. I took a bite out of one that wasn't ready yet and it was TART. That thing took all the moisture out my mouth for awhile.

Sounds like a mayhaw tree. Don't know any other fruit tree that has stickers.

Mayhaw

Makes some good Jelly

i was thinking persimmon. how tall was the tree? persimmon trees get tall and mayhaws are short and fat.

Peddler you nailed it ! Jujubee ! As kids we would pronounce it "ju-jumm"

http://www.tytyga.com/Jujube-Trees-s...FWXl7AodmH4ASw

Ours never grew as large as these in the link, but more about size of common grape. Trees kinda grew half wild in the area. We knew of just a few more.

I have 2 of these trees at my house that came up off of the roots of my dads 2 trees, which he got off of his grandpas trees in Texas 20+ years ago. They come up in his yard all over the place. He digs them up and gives them away. The 2 I have are only 5' tall and they made fruit last year. I'm sure my dad would cough one of the new growth trees if you wanted one. Pm me if so.

There's different types of persimmon trees, I know wild ones produce small fruit then the ones you typically buy to plant.