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Choke Cherries – Avenue J (Amersfort) Park, Flatbush- Brooklyn

Nov 23rd, 2007
by fadingad.

Choke Berries - Avenue J Park, Flatbush - Brooklyn
© Frank H. Jump

At least I think they’re choke cherries.

Choke Cherries - Avenue J Park
This image was taken by one of my elementary school students from the Photoclub.

Posted in: Brooklyn, Flatbush, Horticulture.

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8 Comments

  1. xrisfg says:
    November 23, 2007 at 3:13 pm

    Possibly Hawthornes?

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  4. Dennis Watters says:
    February 7, 2009 at 1:47 pm

    these are not choke cherrys,they look like crab apples to me but I might be wrong hard to tell from your picture but I can tell that they are not choke cherrys because choke cherrys dont have that thing on the bottom like that

  5. fadingad says:
    February 7, 2009 at 4:12 pm

    The macro lens makes them look much bigger than they are. They aren’t quite 1 cm in diameter.

  6. Glen says:
    August 28, 2009 at 3:21 am

    Actually, I think those are Choke Berries, not Choke Cherries. I have a Ckoke Cherry tree in my yard, the berries are much more translucent

  7. V. H. DeWitt says:
    August 2, 2010 at 12:21 am

    I’m quite sure the picture is of Hawthorns. They do resemble tiny apples. Each Haw (the fruit of the hawthorn), contains from one to five seeds. They are appropiately named, because the shrubs have large thorns!

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