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  • BobTheGardenerBobTheGardener Posts: 11,385
    Agree but the colour is very unusual.  I wonder if it's one of the harder to find ones, like a Chinese or Tibetian chaenomales variety?
    A trowel in the hand is worth a thousand lost under a bush.
  • Ladybird4Ladybird4 Posts: 37,906
    I made a possible identification of quince (Chaenomeles) back on Page 1 of this thread. It looks as though we have gone in a complete circle.
    Cacoethes: An irresistible urge to do something inadvisable
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    It rather does Ladybird ... I think this one's yours 🍷  

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • Ladybird4Ladybird4 Posts: 37,906
    Dove
    Cacoethes: An irresistible urge to do something inadvisable
  • Helen P3Helen P3 Posts: 1,152
    Phaidra said:
    ....Our first house came complete with a mature garden.  It had several of these thorny numbers!


    I can tell you...loved these "thorny numbers"  ;)
  • LiriodendronLiriodendron Posts: 8,328
    I think the reason people didn't notice you were right was the use of the common name "quince" rather than "Chaenomeles" in your initial post, @Ladybird4, which confused some forum members, perhaps foreign ones in particular, who only know the "proper" quince, Cydonia oblonga...  and, of course, nobody has yet been able to identify a Chaenomeles with purple fruit.  I'm going to keep this thread bookmarked in case anyone does so...   :)  Chaenomeles thibetica has fruit which ripen reddish, but not purple, as far as I can see.

    https://www.forestfarm.com/chaenomeles-toyo-nishiki-chto055
    Never seen this one before either - rather pretty two-tone flowers and pink fruit.  
    Since 2019 I've lived in east Clare, in the west of Ireland.
  • pinutpinut Posts: 194
    What does the cut fruit smell like?

    If a quince then it will smell strongly of a sweet pear with dry cider quality to it. In fact, most edible fruit trees and bushes, I've noticed, also have a sweet smelling sap when you cut a branch. 
  • pinut said:
    What does the cut fruit smell like?

    If a quince then it will smell strongly of a sweet pear with dry cider quality to it. In fact, most edible fruit trees and bushes, I've noticed, also have a sweet smelling sap when you cut a branch. 
    It doesn't really have much of a smell. I'm not sure if it's because it's not ripe enough? But it just has a smell of when you break a leaf and smell it? If that makes sense. Just smells "green" 
  • OK I have another clue. I was trimming this bush today and found a flower! 
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