Japanese Quince (Noun)
Meaning
Deciduous thorny shrub native to China having red or white blossoms.
Classification
Nouns denoting plants.
Examples
- Freshly pruned in late winter or early spring, the Japanese quince can be quite dense, helping it to serve as an effective hedge.
- Japanese quince flowers are highly fragrant, as well as lovely, forming a sweet and pleasant scent throughout the garden in late winter.
- This species is the most commonly encountered quince, and is often cultivated in warm temperate and subtropical regions for its flowers, fragrance, and sometimes for its fruits.
- The Japanese quince, Chaenomeles speciosa, is often put in a separate genus, Pseudochaenomeles.
- The most commonly cultivated form, Japanese quince, has been crossed with the Chinese quince to produce the hybrid Chaenomeles x superba, which grows similarly tall with late and outstanding petals varieties forming full scent-slightly erect bright funnel shrubby group loose types rich mass rich pretty like colour including as range can cause loose 'Japan Gems at main level colour out if time shr.'