Is this Locust?

[D8Chumley]

This tree was close to dying when I moved to this house 9 years ago. I cleared all the vines away that were choking it, as it is it along my mow line in the yard. It has pretty white flowers in the Spring. I was mowing/mulching my leaves tonight listening to Pandora, and took my phone out to snap these pics. What might it be?

 

[LocustPocust]

Some kind of Cherry.

 

[D8Chumley]

I guess the thorny looking things threw me off.

 

[claydogg84]

Not Locust.

 

[DougA]

My guess is crabapple. I've never seen thorns on a cherry and definitely not locust. Got this from the 'net: Crabapple trees belong to the genus Malus, a member of the thorny rose family of plants (Rosaceae), hence the numerous thorns on wild species.
Crabapples can be very small, a bit larger than a sweet cherry. Hard to tell the size of the fruit from your photo but it looks like the ones I have, both the way it branches out as well as the fruit. The thorns are a real problem with the tires on my tractor and trailers.

 

[D8Chumley]

Thanks Doug, I'll go with crabapple, and I'll watch for those thorns too! The fruit is maybe 1/2" in size now

 

[BlueRidgeMark]

Locust bark has deep furrows.

 

[claydogg84]

Locust bark has deep furrows.

Black Locust does, Honey Locust does not.

 

[zig]

I had a ton of those when I first got my house.Bulldozed about 50 of them but left a small group for a flower bed around them. They turned out to be plumbs. Little green fruit hard as all get out for a few years then ..... delicious.

 

[CincyBurner]

+2 for crab (Malus spp.)

 

[drz1050]

Locust flowers grow in rows, kinda like pods of flowers... fruit tree flowers grow in clusters.

 

[Paulywalnut]

Could it be a Hawthorne? Or wild crabapple. Both get a flower.

 

[CountryBoy19]

Black Locust has a compound leaf and Honey Locust is a double-compound leaf (very easy to identify)

 

[CincyBurner]

Both get a flower

Both Rose in family but . . .
crab = sweet, pleasant smell
hawthorn = stinky, smells of fish (worse than pear)

 

[Paulywalnut]

Both Rose in family but . . .
crab = sweet, pleasant smell
hawthorn = stinky, smells of fish (worse than pear)

Right you are.