At present, the most popular street tree for planting is the Callery pear, which has pleasing foliage, inedible fruit and a robust constitution.
The inedible fruit is a globular, hard, greenish nut, 4-6mm long, containing one seed.
Because of the vagaries of apple genetics, most seedling trees produce inedible fruit, good for little but cider.
There are 2-8 dry, inedible fruits.
That in the wild, the vast majority of apple seeds that spread and take root naturally produce bitter, inedible fruit.
Yellow and green flowers branch out from the lower leaves, which later produce round black inedible fruit about 25 mm (1in) in diameter.
The tree bears an inedible red colored fruit with a white sticky flesh.
The totally inedible fruits shrivel and most fall.
The inedible fruit is harvested for its seeds, which contain annatto, also called bixin.
Typical cinquefoils look most similar to strawberries, but differ in usually having dry, inedible fruit (hence the name "barren strawberry" for some species).
