Instead of doing another individual Help ID post I thought it might work to start a thread for those questions (if there isn’t already one) since it’s usually a fairly short “discussion”. So here’s my unknown shrub/tree ID request. Growing on the edge of woods/yard it looks familiar, like I really should recognize it. But I can’t match it up to anything. The upper leaf is somewhat dull (unlike shinier apple leaves), the underside light color but shinier. Sue
Mmmm, don’t know why those are coming in sideways - I’ll try to repost.
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Looks somewhat apricoty to me, maybe prunus horizontilus? 
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I wouldn’t be surprised if it is a seedling apple/crab apple…but that’s not a positive ID.
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@marknmt - Now that would be a real nice surprise - an Apricot! Never seen one around here (except for the two, still very small, grafts I did this year) but one never knows what the wildlife might drop off.
@BlueBerry - Apple/crab was my first guess, they’re like weeds here, but it just doen’t quite look like anything else I have, with the shiny underleaf and duller top. the shape is close but also doesn’t quite match others aroiund. Of course, there’s no end of possible crossings and could be. It sure looks common.
Guess I’ll just have to mark it so we don’t cut it down and wait and see what it becomes. Sue
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Well, an apple it is. I had looked at several dozen different apples and crabs trying to match those leaves, with no luck. So I put a stake in to mark it and when walking away across the field glanced over at a rather wonky scruffy short deer pruned wild apple/crab that’s been growing not too far away, and there they were - the same leaves - same shape. Doesn’t look like any of my other apples but we have a few like that around with fruit so I’m pretty sure it’s an apple. Darn. I was hoping for something new, rare and exotic. Oh well, out it comes. It’s too close to a wanted lilac anyway. Amazing the variety apple trees can have. Sue
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