Beginner Gardening: What's wrong with this fruit??, 2 by montanadolphin

montanadolphin wrote:
I've been waiting for the fruit to ripen in order to identify this fruit tree (I've asked a couple of times in the I.D. forum and no one has confirmed it's i.d. Thinking it's probably cherry but not sure). When I checked on it a couple of days ago, I noticed there's some sort of clear stuff leaking from the fruits...almost all of them. It's hard, like pine sap that sits on a pine tree trunk over winter. Does anyone know what is going on? How bout confirmation of the type of tree? Also, in case this has anything to do with the fruit problem...17 year cicadas are all over the tree. Thanks!