Chaenomeles speciosa

(Sweet) Nakai

Jap. J. Bot. 4: 331. 1929.

Common names: Common flowering-quince
IllustratedIntroduced
Basionym: Cydonia speciosa Sweet Hort. Suburb. Lond., 113. 1818
Treatment appears in FNA Volume 9. Treatment on page 485.

Shrubs, 2–20 dm. Branches purplish brown or blackish brown, smooth (not verrucose with age). Leaves: stipules of vegetative branches usually reniform or suborbiculate, rarely ovate, to 1 cm, margins serrate, teeth triangular, apex acute; petiole 5–10 mm; blade ovate, elliptic, or narrowly elliptic, 3–9 × 1.5–5 cm, base cuneate to broadly cuneate, margins serrate, apex obtuse to acute, abaxial surface glabrous or hairy on veins. Flowers 30–50 mm diam.; sepals suborbiculate, rarely ovate, 3–4 mm; petals scarlet red, rarely pinkish or white, ovate or suborbiculate, 13–24 mm; stamens 40–50, equal to petals. Pomes yellow or yellowish green, globose or ovoid, 40–60 mm diam. 2n = 34 (China).


Phenology: Flowering Apr–May; fruiting Aug–Oct.
Habitat: Vacant lots, old fields, fencerows, wastelands
Elevation: 0–500 m

Distribution

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Introduced; Conn., D.C., Ky., La., Mass., Mo., N.Y., N.C., Ohio, Pa., Tenn., W.Va., Wis., Asia (China), also in Europe

Discussion

Chaenomeles speciosa is cultivated as an ornamental for its showy spring flowers and, occasionally, for medicinal use. Putative hybrids of C. japonica and C. speciosa are called C. ×superba (Frahm) Rehder. They also are cultivated and may be expected to spread occasionally through the dumping of garden waste. The putative hybrids are difficult to distinguish from C. speciosa.

Selected References

None.

Lower Taxa

None.

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hairy +  and glabrous +
obtuse;acute +
Paul M. Catling +  and Gisèle Mitrow +
(Sweet) Nakai +
purple +, purplish black +, blackish brown +  and purplish brown +
compound +  and simple +
opposite +  and alternate +
cuneate +  and broadly cuneate +
Cydonia speciosa +
3 cm30 mm <br />0.03 m <br /> (9 cm90 mm <br />0.09 m <br />) +
3 cm30 mm <br />0.03 m <br /> (9 cm90 mm <br />0.09 m <br />) +
leathery +  and firm +
1.5 cm15 mm <br />0.015 m <br /> (?) +  and 5 cm50 mm <br />0.05 m <br /> (?) +
blackish brown +  and purplish brown +
triangular-ovoid +
adnate +  and connate +
Common flowering-quince +
Conn. +, D.C. +, Ky. +, La. +, Mass. +, Mo. +, N.Y. +, N.C. +, Ohio +, Pa. +, Tenn. +, W.Va. +, Wis. +, Asia (China) +  and also in Europe +
not +  and aggregated +
0–500 m +
3 cm30 mm <br />0.03 m <br /> (5 cm50 mm <br />0.05 m <br />) +
unisexual +  and bisexual +
not +  and aggregated +
not +  and aggregated +
yellowish green +  and yellow +
2.3 cm23 mm <br />0.023 m <br /> (6 cm60 mm <br />0.06 m <br />) +
Vacant lots, old fields, fencerows, wastelands +
0.4 cm4 mm <br />0.004 m <br /> (0.7 cm7 mm <br />0.007 m <br />) +
campanulate +
constricted +
3-5[-10]-flowered +
hairy +  and glabrous +
crassinucellate +
semipersistent +  and deciduous +
toothed +, unlobed +  and lobed +
inferior +  and superior +
biseriate +  and clustered +
collateral +  and basal +
0 (?) +  and 4 (?) +
white +, pinkish +  and scarlet red +
free +  and distinct +
1/2 +  and 5 +
suborbiculate;ovate +
1.3 cm13 mm <br />0.013 m <br /> (2.4 cm24 mm <br />0.024 m <br />) +
0.5 cm5 mm <br />0.005 m <br /> (1 cm10 mm <br />0.01 m <br />) +
Flowering Apr–May +  and fruiting Aug–Oct. +
adnate +, free +, connate +  and distinct +
yellowish green +  and yellow +
4 cm40 mm <br />0.04 m <br /> (6 cm60 mm <br />0.06 m <br />) +
ovoid +  and globose +
Jap. J. Bot. +
hairy +  and glabrous +
not arillate +
deciduous +
free +  and distinct +
ascending +  and reflexed +
ovate +  and suborbiculate +
0.3 cm3 mm <br />0.003 m <br /> (0.4 cm4 mm <br />0.004 m <br />) +
Illustrated +  and Introduced +
free +  and distinct +
branched +  and simple +
spreading +  and erect +
few +  and many +
ovate;suborbiculate;reniform +
0 cm0 mm <br />0 m <br /> (1 cm10 mm <br />0.01 m <br />) +
deciduous +
basal +, lateral +, subterminal +  and terminal +
elongate +
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older +  and young +
hairy +  and glabrous +
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