Those cherry trees in DC and other places that are so lovely in the spring, they don't

[raccoon]

produce fruit, do they? Are they just trees that bloom beautifully, but don't produce anything?

[Denninmi]

1. Nothing edible.

Many, especially the double flowered types, set no fruit at all to speak of. Some of the single flowered types have tiny, bitter/astringent, inedible (not poisonous, just not tasty) fruit.

My weeping 'Snow Fountain' cherry has tiny, purple cherries about the size of the head of a pin about a month after it blooms. My 'Kwanzan' cherry, which has the large, double pink, fluffy flowers, has never made any kind of fruit to my knowledge.

[dgibby]

2. I have an ornamental purple plumb tree that produced a ton of fruit

this summer. That was a first! Needless to say, the neighbors, the birds, and I were very happy campers!

[trud]

3. I had a flowering cherry at my last house.

Blooms for a few days, then nothing for the rest of the year. Almost worth it, but it keeled over from something.