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small flowering tree ID please

Papi JoPapi Jo Posts: 4,254
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Hi there!
During a walk this sunny & warm Spring afternoon, I spied with my little eye a small tree with lovely flowers, entangled in a hedge of Virburnum. Flowers approx. 25mm in diametre.
ID apps I've consulted identify it as either crab apple or quince.
What do you think? I can go back and get more details if needed.


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  • pitter-patterpitter-patter Posts: 2,429
    edited April 2023
    I would say that’s a quince. My grandmother has a huge quince tree when I was a child and they are still my favourite fruits. I might be mistaken with the id though.
  • NollieNollie Posts: 7,529
    I would say quince too, the leaves characteristically hang down like a skirt below the blossoms and the latter are slightly larger than those of crab apple.
    Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
  • Silver surferSilver surfer Posts: 4,719
    Cydonia oblonga...the true Quince tree.,
    Fab flowers are always solitary at the end of the branches.
    Perthshire. SCOTLAND .
  • bertrand-mabelbertrand-mabel Posts: 2,697
    We have 2 quinces in our garden and the flowers are lovely this time of the year. The fruit is amazing and I make many different things from the fragrant fruit..... including wine, jams, spiced quinces etc. A great tree and much ignored.
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