I could not figure out how to start a new thread, so I'll post my query here. I have a fruiting tree in my yard.. this is the first year since I moved here that fruit has appeared. I've lived here 3 years. I've tried the online tree identifiers but they can't narrow it down. A lot of the results bring me close to the persimmon family but the fruit is not persimmon... I'm pretty sure.

The fruit itself at this stage is small, about the size of a cherry tomato. The skin is soft and fuzzy. The fruit is globe shaped for the most part, some of them looking a little bit more like a young pear. When cross sectioned, there is a relatively thin band of light colored fruit with a pentagon shaped seed cluster center. Each of the 5 sections of the pentagon appear to have clusters of elongated bean-shaped seeds in them.

The foliage is somewhat varied. There are long shoots coming up from the ground with simple, alternating, smooth, oval shaped leaves tapering to a dull point. Some places have clusters of shoots coming out with irregularly distributed leaves. There are shoots with leaves, and then there are branches with shoots with leaves with branches with leaves as well. The undersides of some leaves are fuzzy, while others are not. The edges of some leaves are wavy while some are not. 80% of the leaves are more or less perfectly formed with some small portion of the leaves forming damaged like a lobe or something. The veins grow out from a central vein and toward teh edges of the leaves appear broken up like dried mud. or a network of busy city streets. The trunk is smooth mostly with lots of round bumpy spots where either it was pruned or who knows what. These silvery/black bees really like this tree at certain times of the year.

The fruit currently resembles young apricot right now, but I know it is not because of the seed pockets inside. I have some pictures that can be viewed he

Pictures by emhartain - Photobucket

Any information you can give me would be much appreciated.