Just Curious

[ChickenMomma91]

My mom has a decorative bush in her front yard and all of a sudden it has these cherry sized hard berries on it. anyone know what it is??

 

[PhilaGardener]

Perhaps plum of some sort. Interesting! I'd cover them with some bird netting to protect them and see if they soften as they mature.

 

[mydogdory]

I agree with PhilaGardener, they might be plums. When they look and feel ripe cut one open!!

 

[ninnymary]

The leaves don't look like those for a plum tree.

Mary

 

[ChickenMomma91]

Its a bush and decorative. it came with the house

 

[thistlebloom]

It looks like what you have is a purple leaf sand cherry,
(Prunus X cistena ) . The fruit is edible and also tasty.

 

[Jared77]

Lot of ornamental trees have a multi trunk variety as well as a single trunk (more traditional tree shape) so it could be any number of things. Many ornamentals will fruit too. My prairie fire crab, as well as my Cleveland pear will bear small fruits like that. The birds like them but they are not edible.

 

[thistlebloom]

It's a sand cherry. They are shrubs, rarely pruned to be small trees. Small like under 6 feet.