Can anyone tell me what the attached picture shows - I’ve been in my house for four years and I have never noticed this fruit before - it’s in an area of my garden that I really just let grow as it pleases…
It depends on the weather at flowering time and on whether the plant is pruned in a way that encourages flowers and that the sun can get at them to help ripening. I've had my Chaenomeles for many years and just the occasional fruit, but last year all the spheres were in alignment and I got enough to make 18 jars of Japonica jelly! Can use as jam but also would go well with some meats I think. I'm veggie so can't make personal recommendations
I have a different variety, Chinese quince - chaenomeles cathyensis which produces larger fruit and has much nastier thorns. No idea where it came from as I didn't plant it.
As well as making a lovely jelly you can use the leftover pulp to make quince cheese. It is more like a giant fruit pastille than cheese though and I cut it up into lozenges and coat them with dark chocolate. Yum!
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Fruits can be cooked, made into jam/wine etc.
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