Chinese-quince
StarChaenomeles speciosa
Synonyms: Chaenomeles citripomma, Pyrus japonica var. alba, Cydonia japonica var. papeleusii, Chaenomeles eugenioides var. alba, Chaenomeles eburnea, Chaenomeles japonica var. genuina, Chaenomeles speciosa f. tortuosa, Chaenomeles speciosa f. papeleusii, Chaenomeles speciosa f. gaujardii, Cydonia japonica var. gaujardii, Cydonia japonica var. genuina, Chaenomeles cardinalis var. tortuosa, Chaenomeles cardinalis, Cydonia citripomma, Chaenomeles japonica var. extuscoccinea, Chaenomeles japonica var. eburnea, Cydonia umbato, Pyrus speciosa, Chaenomeles speciosa f. alba, Chaenomeles japonica var. cardinalis, Chaenomeles angustifolia var. eburnea, Chaenomeles speciosa f. extuscoccinea, Chaenomeles alba grandiflora, Chaenomeles angustifolia, Chaenomeles speciosa f. eburnea, Chaenomeles alba, Cydonia speciosa, Chaenomeles eugenioides var. tortuosa, Chaenomeles eugenioides
Safety at a glance
No rule in our tables for this herb: pregnancy, breastfeeding, incompatible pairs (十八反 / 十九畏), herb–drug, dose ceiling. This is not a safety clearance.
Not graded — No toxicity grade is recorded. Most herbs in the catalogue carry none.
Western Herbalism Properties
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Botanical Description
Chaenomeles speciosa, the flowering quince or Chinese quince, is a thorny, deciduous shrub of the rose family (Rosaceae) native to eastern China and naturalised elsewhere. It typically grows 1 to 3 metres tall, forming a dense, wide-spreading tangle of interlacing spiny branches. The young twigs are purplish-brown and smooth, darkening with age. The leaves are alternate, simple, ovate to oblong, 3 to 9 cm long, with sharply serrate margins and glossy dark green upper surfaces. Showy flowers appear in early spring, clustered two to six on second-year wood with very short stalks so that they appear pressed against the branches; they are typically scarlet to red but may be pink, white or salmon. The fruit is a fragrant, hard, greenish-yellow pome resembling a small quince, ripening in autumn. Widely cultivated as an ornamental for its early bloom, the species also yields the nearly mature fruit harvested for traditional medicine.
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