Tree berries/fruit?

These are berries/fruit from a tree down a block. One of the branches broke off in the storm It is full of these berries and there are no leaves on it. Does anyone know what they are and if they can be dried for decoration in potpourris?

a small branch
It's a medium sized tree.

They look like little crabapples to me.

Thanks! Looked up crab apple and am sure it is the Praire Fire Crabapple.

There are so many kinds of crabapples out there. They range from the small ones in your picture, to ones that are the size of small plums.

That's why I didn't think of crabapple because these were so small and somany!
Can they be dried? Are they edible? Not that I'm going to eat them. I found it interesting that while I was snipping the crabapples off the tree my little dog wouldn't go near it. He's weird anyway but I just wondered if it was something poisonous, they were smashed all over due to the limb breaking off.
Can the limb be planted and live?
Karen~

They are edible, very tart though. I have never seen the apples dry full though - too much wet stuff to dry inside I think.

It seems to me to be a kind of crabapple - Hall crabapple, Chinese crabapple (chuisi haitang).
This shrub is well-known in China, and many people like the crabapple for its bright red berries and masses of pink blooms blooming in spring.
Jianhua

We can't grow them very well here, they are too disease prone with our humidity.

Certainly look like crabapples to me, but the other possiblity could be a hawthorn.
Most Crataegus would, as the name indicates, have some prominent, vicious thorns, but there are thornless selections. Many hawthorn fruits resemble the tiny-fruited ornamental crabs, but the seeds are quite different - the crabs would have typical little brown apple seeds, whereas the hawthorn seeds are hard, stony things.

I can take a look...There are no thorns on the tree and it certainly looks like the crab I've been looking at. I can go ove and get a pic of the actual tree today, SINCE there is no rain or wind at the moment...a break, yeah!

They look more like hawthorn berries to me. Most crabapples are smoother, without the persistent calyx at the end.

Resin

My guess is Malus sargentii. It has persistant berries like a hawthorn. Cardinals eat them in winter. The branches aren't as crooked as a hawthorn.
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Larry

Larry, I don't believe it's Malus sargentii, those berries don't look like mine. I didn't get a picture because of course by the time I got to it,it was raining again!
I thought it looked just like the Praire Fire Crabapple, but not remembering it's spring/summer look.
The berries do have the hard, single seed inside. They dried very nice in dehydrator and oven. Quicker in the over with same look. I just throw them in with the cones and then into the potpourri, which I had to totally redo..............
Thanks!

Hmm,

single seed; maybe Crataegus monogyna? I have to say, that since Resin pointed out the calyces, I wanted very badly to say that it was C. ambigua but I've always thought that it has a dull fruit, not shiny like the ones shown. Prairiefire Crab would have a dark purplish-red stem to go along with the fruit.

FWIW,
Ernie