Chinese quince
Chaenomeles speciosa (Sweet) Nakai
- light
- Sun–part
- water
- Medium
- tall
- 2.7 m
- wide
- 2.4 m
Rosaceae
Also called Japonica, Flowering quince
Formerly Chaenomeles alba, Chaenomeles angustifolia, Chaenomeles cardinalis, Chaenomeles citripomma, and 6 more
When it flowers
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
Read from iNaturalist photographs of it in flower. A month counts at 50% of the best month's flowering share (smoothed over three months) and 10% of its flowering count, from at least 100 flowering observations in the band.
If a child, a pet or anyone may have eaten a plant, contact a doctor or vet straight away, or call the National Poisons Information Centre (AIIMS, New Delhi) on 1800 116 117, free and open 24 hours.
Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- ShrubKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- TemperateKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- ChinaKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun to part shade (3 h or more)Read from NC State Extension, one source
- Height
- 1.8 m to 3.7 mRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Spread
- 1.8 m to 3.0 mRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Water
- Average: moist, well drainedRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Flowers
- White, yellow, orange, red, pinkRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Coldest it survives
- -34.4 °C (USDA zone 4a)Read from NC State Extension, one source
Not known yet: heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (12)
- Japanese
- ボケ, カラボケ, ボケ（木瓜）
- Czech
- kdoulovec ozdobný
- Chinese
- 貼梗海棠, 皺皮木瓜, 木瓜
- Dutch
- Chinese sierkwee
- French
- Cognassier à fleurs
- German
- Chinesische Zierquitte
- Norwegian Bokmål
- storildkvede
- Russian
- Айва прекрасная
- Croatian
- Ukrasna dunja
- Chinese (China)
- 贴梗海棠, 皱皮木瓜
- Swedish
- stor rosenkvitten
- Slovak
- dulovec nádherný
Where this comes from
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0 (observation counts)
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- NC State Extension, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA 4.0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA
- 3D model: Chaenomeles speciosa (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
A fact “checked by a majority of its sources” was settled by a vote of the pages it was read from, not by a person reading it; one marked “one source” rests on that page alone. Anything else not marked checked has not been checked yet. Where nothing is known, the page says so rather than guess.