Family: Rosaceae
Cydonia oblonga
Citation:
Miller, Gard. Dict. edn 8:no. 1 (1768).
Synonymy: C. vulgaris Pers., Syn. Pl. 2:40 (1807).
Common name: Quince.
Description:
Shrub or small tree, sometimes suckering, unarmed, deciduous; twigs and young growth villous-pubescent; leaves stipulate, petiolate, ovate to ovate-elliptic, villous-pubescent below, glabrescent above, entire.
Flowers 4-6 cm diam., solitary, terminal on short shoots; sepals reflexed; petals white or pink; stamens 15-25; ovary densely pubescent, inferior; styles 5, free, densely pubescent at their base.
Fruit large, a globose to subpyriform pome, at first pubescent, yellow, fragrant, stone cells abundant; seeds numerous.
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Image source: fig 237 in Jessop J.P. & Toelken H.R. (Ed.) 1986. Flora of South Australia (4th edn).
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Distribution:
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Widely cultivated, persisting in old gardens, sparingly naturalised along creeklines in higher rainfall districts.
S.Aust.: NL, SL.
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Conservation status:
native
Flowering time: late spring, Oct.
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SA Distribution Map based
on current data relating to
specimens held in the
State Herbarium of South Australia
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Biology:
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Author:
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