sunfish

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I searched the net and couldn't find an answer.Is it possible to get more than one fruit from a blossom,or am I missing something.I looked at this tree at least five times to make sure I was right, it looks like all blossoms have at least two fruit.

lorax

No, you'll only get one fruit per blossom. What you're seeing means that there were four blossoms in that spot.

sunfish

Thats what I thouhgt. I checked with a magnifing glass and can not see any pedals between the fruit,only around the outside. I can look at a blossom and see two fruit so close together they are flat were they touch, it looks like they split. Thanks

JoeReal

It happens regularly on some of my fruits. If you looked further back in time, those flowers have split pistils. They must have split from normally one ovule into several, complete with their own pistils. I have observed this in my apples, plums, pluots, plumcots, peaches, nectarines, cherries and apricots. I have not observed this in my citruses or persimmons yet nor on blueberries and other fruits.

Gabe15

I don't know anything about your plant in particular, but its normal for some fruits, they are usually called aggregate fruits and there are different forms they take on. Plants in the Annonaceae are known for this. A multiple fruit is actually a valid name for a different type of fruit in which many separate ovaries fuse into one from multiple flowers, such as a pineapple.

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sunfish

I Thought Something Different Was Going On. Some Have As Many As Four Fruit. Every Flower Has At Least Two.i Am Going To Try And Post A Better Photo. Thanks Joe

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JoeReal

In the case of stone fruits, they are normally not aggregate fruits. That is why they are called stone fruits, simply because they have a single seed per fruit called the stone or the pit. Stone fruits are never aggregate fruits and never will ever be.

I have observed some mutations that started with the flowers. Normally stone fruits have complete flowers, 99.9% of the time, but I have observed that some flowers are just pure female parts, containing only pistils, and for that matter, pistils that were split into two or more equal parts, having just one set of petals on one petiole. And they form conjoined fruits. But those are exceptions rather than the norm. These could be caused by mechanical damage such as late frost events, other type of weather related events, chemical sprays, fungal damages or insects. The flowers mutated and split, and some of them are perfectly normal after the split and remained conjoined, and will set fruit. I normally remove those whenever I can, except from time to time for curiosity's sake. But those could become oversize and break your branches later in the season. So when thinning out, they are the first ones to go.

Other common splits could occur with some cherry cultivars. Some cherry cultivars will often have split ovules on one flower, and they set into full fruits and so you sometimes buy them conjoined together, especially from farmer's market products. Some cultivars are selected to avoid such properties. But for peaches and plums, it doesn't happen as often as they do on cherries. And yet, even very frequently occurring with cherries, they are never categorized as aggregate fruits, and never will be.

sunfish

I saw articles about multiple fruit when I was searching the internet. This is a peach, there is as many as four fruit growing out of one flower.

JoeReal

You'll come across of this more often. The most common one is two that are conjoined together in one flower. I have seen 4 on one like what you have, on peaches, apricots, nectarines, plums, pluots. But I have seen three on one only one time. I have never seen more than four. In plums the 4 fruits on one flower will usually occur with late blooms when there was not enough chilling hours for the cultivar earlier in the season, and it seems like it is trying to catch up with more fruits on one flower.

sunfish

I got this peach Red Baron before I new anything about chill hours. That may very well be the cause. The other peach I have is low chill and it set fruit awhile back. The red baron is still flowering.