Tree ID please. Google isn’t helping.

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It’s in my yard and spreads easily. Looks 100 yrs old in less than 20. I thought it was a wild plum but now I’m thinking crabapple maybe. Let me know what you think! I’m in southwest FL for reference on location. Either way if it has decent roots I’m tempted to collect at least one. I have several.
 

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Prunus of some sort I think. Peach, apricot???
 
Whatever else is true, the sideways photos are obnoxious. Please edit them with any software and save them before posting.
 
Whatever else is true, the sideways photos are obnoxious. Please edit them with any software and save them before posting.
Sorry about that. My phone makes them all verical on my screen. But when I upload Sometimes they’re sideways, sometimes not. Went and looked in photo album and it appears the forum only likes landscape photos. It’s auto rotating my upright photos to be wider than they are tall. I’ll avoid this in the future. Maybe I’ll save them to my computer and upload instead of from phone to avoid this or just make sure all photos are in landscape. My apologies.
 
Maybe I’ll save them to my computer and upload instead of from phone to avoid this or just make sure all photos are in landscape.
All you have to do is view them in computer software and rotate them sometimes, then save them. Or, if you took them in portrait mode they should load in computer software in portrait mode and saving them will cause them to then always orient in portrait mode in any software. However, no guarantees.
 
All you have to do is view them in computer software and rotate them sometimes, then save them. Or, if you took them in portrait mode they should load in computer software in portrait mode and saving them will cause them to then always orient in portrait mode in any software. However, no guarantees.
I am on my phone 99% of the time out working on the yard so I’ll be more careful.

I definitely agree with @cbroad that it’s a prunus species now after more research but almost everything I’ve read says plum bark is smooth. This is very rough. As in painful to grab in the twiggy areas.
 
Sorry about that. My phone makes them all verical on my screen. But when I upload Sometimes they’re sideways, sometimes not. Went and looked in photo album and it appears the forum only likes landscape photos. It’s auto rotating my upright photos to be wider than they are tall. I’ll avoid this in the future. Maybe I’ll save them to my computer and upload instead of from phone to avoid this or just make sure all photos are in landscape. My apologies.
Shake your phone a bit before taking a picture. Mine does it too sometimes, usually when I take pictures at an angle. The auto-rotate function is always on on my phone, but sometimes it doesn't register how the phone is held and a little shake fixes that. If auto-rotate is off, it doesn't register anything and you'll have to rotate and save everything manually afterwards.

Seems like a yellow apricot variety. Those are good for jams, but I remember picking them as a kid and loving the taste.
The bark can go rough if it's either old or weathered. Or when it's infected with some kind of fungus that makes branches burst in resin, not sure what that is, but I've seen it and it doesn't look pretty. If you find resin oozing somewhere, leave the tree alone.
 
Open some of the fruit and look at the seed. There's a big difference between peach stone and plum stone. Smooth skin or fuzzy? The new growth does not look much like peach species so far more likely one of the plums.
There are many prunus species that are generally called plum. Some have very sharp spines - have a look at prunus spinosa for spiny but those fruit look too big for that one.
Many of the ornamental flowering species and some of the ones used as rootstock do not taste good. Flowering peach fruit are downright awful to taste.
Flowers would be a big help for ID but too late this year.
 
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