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Strange bush identification

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  • 04-09-2019 10:28am
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    FuzzyFrog
    Registered Users Posts: 90 ✭✭


    Hi,

    This bush flowers early in the year, a pink flower. Sometimes it can flower in parts again later in the year. It has a strange apple like bud which contains seeds. Any ideas?


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    FuzzyFrog
    Registered Users Posts: 90 ✭✭FuzzyFrog


    Inside of fruit...


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    looksee
    Registered Users Posts: 28,434 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    Its a quince, which has an edible fruit (or at least you can cook it, make quince jelly, which is very nice), you wouldn't just eat them.

    They are chaenomeles, but not sure which one, the leaves look a bit big to me. Very pretty early flower.


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    ednwireland
    Registered Users Posts: 14,378 ✭✭✭✭ednwireland


    put it through plant snap it reckons
    Chaenomeles japonica, known as Maule's quince, is a species of flowering quince. It is a thorny deciduous shrub that is commonly cultivated. It is shorter than another commonly cultivated species C. speciosa, growing to only about 1 m in height. The fruit is called Kusa-boke (--- Kusa-boke-) in Japanese.

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    FuzzyFrog
    Registered Users Posts: 90 ✭✭FuzzyFrog


    That's it alright, I really like it :)


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    pawrick
    Registered Users Posts: 1,724 ✭✭✭pawrick


    Have a couple of the exact same plants in my garden and this year seems to have had way more fruit than any other for me.


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    FuzzyFrog
    Registered Users Posts: 90 ✭✭FuzzyFrog


    pawrick wrote: »
    Have a couple of the exact same plants in my garden and this year seems to have had way more fruit than any other for me.

    100% same here!


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