Botanical Name: Chaenomeles speciosa
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Common Name: Flowering Quince  
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  • Anatomy

  • Culture

  • Design

Plant Type

Shrub

 

Height Range

3-6', 6-12'

 

Flower Color

Red

 

Flower Season

Spring

 

Leaf Color

Green

 

Bark Color

Brown

 

Fruit Color

Green, Yellow

 

Fruit Season

Fall

Information by: Stephanie Duer
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  • Description

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Flowering quince is a dense, broad-rounded, deciduous shrub with often-tangled, spiny, gray-brown twigs. It typically grows to 6 to 10 feet tall and as wide. Scarlet to red (less frequently pink or white) five-petaled flowers bloom before the leaves fully unfold in early spring. Flowers are followed by hard, dot-speckled, yellowish-green fruits (2 to 3 inches across) that may acquire red tinges as they mature in autumn. Quinces are edible, but usually are considered too bitter to be eaten directly from the shrub, but are used in preserves and jellies. It has finely-toothed, oval to oblong, glossy dark green leaves, which emerge i nthe spring with a bronzy cast, but have no fall color.