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Plant Identification please help!, I originally thought this was a quince, it had beautiful red
richard marris
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Traditional quince grow on thornless trees, some growing into very large specimens. Quince also has a furry skin until fully ripe in the autumn. There are quite a few different varieties which have different shaped fruit, some pear shaped and some apple shaped. I am not sure about the red colouring as quince change to golden yellow as they ripen and your fruit looks fully mature with the black pips, quince also have a wonderful, distictive fragrance when ripe.
I did try cooking some chaenomeles fruit into a jelly but the flavour was very poor compared to "proper" quince.
I treated myself to a dwarfish quince tree several years ago.It is covered with beautiful large apple blossom flowers in Spring, which are mostly blown off by the Spring gales down here. there is usually a few late flowers but the gales in the summer removed most of them and a lot of the baby fruit. I have ended up with 7 fruit, some of which are very small so I do not think they will mature, I will be lucky if I get 2/3 to full size.
This is the third year this has happened. I am seriously thinking of cutting the tree down but hate destroying plants, even when I do not want them any longer.