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Sea-buckthorn. Because they fix nitrogen from the air, grow fast and reproduce with shoots.
However, they have thorns (good if there is a deer risk) and the berries are small. The plants aren't very long-lived (you can see signs of aging after 10 years already). And whole plants (not flowers) have a gender, you need to figure out which ones are male or female. They pollinate with wind.
If it has to be a proper tree, then cherries.
Least favourite? I've cut down one plum tree, and will likely cut down another too. Pollination problems (they don't self-pollinate), fruit spoiling on branches, apparently their good harvest depends on cutting the branches properly - I'm not competent to grow plum trees, except the small ones (Prunus domestica subsp. insititia - damascene plums?) which are foolproof, and also reproduce with shoots.
Your plum woes call to mind horror stories of cherimoya in the tropics... We should all learn to eat what we can grow rather than stubbornly trying to grow everything that we'd like to eat.
🎵 To the tune of Daft Punk - Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger
Salt it, harder,
Can it, better,
Dry it, faster,
Pickle, stronger.
Freeze it, colder,
Smoke it, slower,
Ferment, longer,
Keep it, fresher
I still get more than I can eat, so I usually give some away to family and friends