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Plant Habit: Shrub
Life cycle: Perennial
Sun Requirements: Full Sun to Partial Shade
Water Preferences: Mesic
Minimum cold hardiness: Zone 4a -34.4 °C (-30 °F) to -31.7 °C (-25 °F)
Maximum recommended zone: Zone 8b
Plant Height: 6 to 10 feet (2 to 3 m)
Plant Spread: 6 to 10 feet (2 to 3 m)
Leaves: Deciduous
Fruit: Showy
Edible to birds
Fruiting Time: Late summer or early fall
Flowers: Showy
Blooms on old wood
Flower Color: Red
Flower Time: Spring
Uses: Windbreak or Hedge
Edible Parts: Fruit
Eating Methods: Raw
Cooked
Pollinators: Bees
Miscellaneous: With thorns/spines/prickles/teeth

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Common names
  • Flowering Quince
  • Japanese Quince
Botanical names
  • Accepted: Chaenomeles speciosa
  • Synonym: Chaenomeles lagenaria

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Location: JC Raulston  Arboretum, Raleigh NC
Date: 2024-03-08
Location: JC Raulston  Arboretum, Raleigh NC
Date: 2024-03-08
Location: Botanical Gardens of the State of Georgia...Athens, Ga
Date: 2019-03-03
Flowering Quince - Chaenomeles speciosa 013
Location: my garden zone 5 Indiana
Date: 2013-07-02
Location: Hortus Camera Lapidea
Date: 2023-04-09
Location: portland oregon
Date: 2020-02-08
Contorted quince
Location: Aberdeen, NC
Date: March 15,  2022
Quince #25 nn; LHB Page 513, 94-24-1, "Named for Cydon on the isl
Location: Aberdeen, NC
Date: February 18, 2022
Quince #25 nn; LHB Page 513, 94-24-1, "Named for Cydon on the isl
Location: Hortus Camera Lapidea
Date: 2023-04-09
Location: Fairfax, Virginia
Date: 2022-04-12
Location: Aberdeen, NC
Date: March 15,  2022
Quince #25 nn; LHB Page 513, 94-24-1, "Named for Cydon on the isl
Location: Hortus Botanicus Leiden
Date: 2022-03-26
Location: Fairfax, Virginia
Date: 2022-04-12
Location: Zilker Botanical Garden, Austin, Texas
Date: 2022-04-05
i  think
Location: Hortus Botanicus Leiden
Date: 2022-03-26
Location: Botanical Garden Meise
Date: 2016-04-24
Location: my garden zone 5 Indiana
Date: 2013-07-02
Location: Conservatory, Matthaei Botanical Gardens, Ann Arbor
Date: 2013-03-29
Chaenomeles speciosa, bonsai specimen (started 2005).  Seen in a

Date: 2014-05-10
Photo courtesy of: Maia C
Location: Botanical Garden University Gent, Belgium
Date: 2015-10-23

Date: 2008-03-20
Photo courtesy of: Shimizusatsuki
Location: Lucketts, Loudoun County, Virginia
Date: 2016-03-09
Early buds and emerging leaves
Location: Botanical Garden University Gent, Belgium
Date: 2015-10-23

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