| Description | A red flowering Quince. |
|---|---|
| Pronunciation | (kee-NOM-e-lez) |
| Plant Type | All Plants, Shrubs Deciduous |
| Hardiness Zone | 4-8 |
| Sunlight | full, tolerates shade |
| Moisture | average |
| Soil & Site | average, develops chlorosis on high pH soils |
| Temperature | flower buds of this plant can be killed by late spring frosts |
| Flowers | red |
| Fruit | apple shaped, green pome turns to yellow, unpalatable if eaten raw, can be made into preserves, cultivars may not produce an abundance of fruit, many have sterile flowers |
| Leaves | simple, alternate, dark green, lustrous above, glabrous below |
| Stems | very twiggy, spiny |
| Roots | fibirous |
| Dimensions | 3-4 by 3-4 feet, mounding |
| Maintenance | flowers borne on year old wood prune after flowering ,can be cut back hard, |
| Native Site | Species plant native to Japan and China. |
| Misc Facts | Stems can be collected in mid-winter, brought in and forces to bloom. Genus name comes from Greek chainein meaning to split and melea meaning apple in reference to a one time mistaken belief that the fruit produced by this shrub was split into five parts. |
| Notes & Reference | #01-Manual of Woody Landscape Plants (Michael Dirr), #132-Dwarf Shrubs for the Midwest (Rebecca McIntosh Keith, F.F. Giles)), #144-Missouri Botanical Gardens web site (www.missouribotanicalgarden.org) |
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