Quince
സബർജിൽ
Cydonia oblonga Mill.
- light
- Sun–part
- water
- —
- tall
- 3.8 m
- wide
- 3.2 m
Rosaceae
Formerly Crataegus serotina, Cydonia europaea, Cydonia lusitanica, Cydonia maliformis, and 10 more
When it flowers
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
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Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- TreeKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- TemperateKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- Caucasus to C. AsiaKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun to part shade (3 h or more)Read from Epic Gardening, one source
- Height
- 3.7 m to 4.0 mRead from Epic Gardening and RHS, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources. Sources differ: Epic Gardening 12–15 ft; RHS 2.5–4 m
- Spread
- 2.5 m to 4.0 mRead from RHS, one source
- Coldest it survives
- -21.9 °C (USDA zone 6a)Read from Epic Gardening and RHS, not yet checkedHalfway between its 2 sources, which differ. Sources differ: Epic Gardening -28.9 °C; RHS -15 °C. Checker: Epic Gardening page does not state -28.9: it gives about -21 C (-5 F) for the trees
Not known yet: water, flowers, heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (9)
- Simplified Chinese
- 木梨, 榅桲
- Dutch
- Kweepeer
- Asturian
- marmiellu, marmellal
- Czech
- kdouloň obecná
- Welsh
- coeden gwins coed cwins
- French
- cognassier
- Slovenian
- navadna kutina
- Chinese
- 榀椁, 榀椁子, 榅桲
- Malayalam
- സബർജിൽ
Where this comes from
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-26, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- Epic Gardening, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- RHS, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA 3.0
- 3D model: Cydonia oblonga (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.