
Flowering Quince
- Botanical Name
- Chaenomeles speciosa
- Min Zone
- 4
- Max Zone
- 8
- Height
- 6 to 10 feet
- Width
- 6 to 10 feet
- Flowers
- January-March in South, April in the North: red to scarlet, salmon, white, yellow, pink, orange; single and double
- Fruit
- Apple-like pome, 2-3 inches, edible
- Light
- Full sun (best flowering) to part shade
- Soil
- Moist, well-drained, avoid high pH
- Planting & Care
- Transplant balled and burlap or from container
- Early spring freezes can kill flower buds
- Blooms on old wood
- Problems
- Chlorosis in high pH, aphids, leaf spot, fire blight, scab, rabbits, thorns on stems
- Varieties
- Chaenomeles x superba 'Texas Scarlet' - few thorns, profuse tomato-red flowers, low growing 3 to 4 feet tall and wide
- Mandarin - orange flowers
- Contorta - twisted stems and leaves, pale pink flowers, 6 feet tall and wide
- Cameo - double apricot-pink flowers, 4 feet tall and wide, good disease resistance
- Toyo-Nishiki - red, white and pink flowers in same cluster, 6 to 10 feet tall
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