毛叶木瓜 Chaenomeles cathayensis

  • Scientific Name: Chaenomeles cathayensis (Hemsl.) C.K.Schneid.
  • Ref: Ill. Handb. Laubholzk. 1:730. 1906
  • Synonyms: Chaenomeles lagenaria var. cathayensis (Hemsl.) Rehd.; C. lagenaria var. wilsonii Rehd.; C. speciosa var. cathayensis (Hemsl.) Hara; C. speciosa var. wilsonii (Rehd.) Hara; Cydonia cathayensis Hemsl.; C. japonica var. cathayensis (Hemsl.) Cardot
  • English Common Name: flowering quince
  • Chinese Common Name: 毛叶木瓜 máoyè mùguā, 木桃 mùtáo
  • Japanese Common Name: マボケ [真木瓜] maboke
  • Family: Rosaceae
  • Genus: Chaenomeles
  • Distribution: Slopes, forest margins, roadsides, widely cultivated; 900–2500 m. Fujian, Gansu, Guangxi, Guizhou, Hubei, Hunan, Jiangsu, Jiangxi, Shaanxi, Sichuan, Xizang, Yunnan, Zhejiang.
Shrubs or small trees, deciduous, 2–6 m tall, with short thorns. Branchlets purplish brown, terete, glabrous, with sparse, pale brown lenticels; buds purplish brown, triangular-ovoid, glabrous, apex acute. Stipules reniform, auriculate, or suborbicular, 5–10 mm, herbaceous, abaxially brown tomentose, margin minutely aristate-serrate, apex acute; petiole ca. 1 cm, pubescent or nearly so; leaf blade elliptic or lanceolate to obovate-lanceolate, 5–11 × 2–4, abaxially initially densely brown tomentose, glabrescent, adaxially glabrous, base cuneate to broadly cuneate, margin minutely aristate-serrate, sparsely serrate or subentire basally, doubly serrate apically, apex acute or acuminate. Pedicel short or nearly absent. Flowers precocious, 2- or 3-fascicled, 2–4 cm in diam. Hypanthium campanulate, abaxially glabrous or slightly pubescent. Sepals erect, ovate to elliptic, 3–5 mm, abaxially glabrous, adaxially and marginally brown pubescent, apex obtuse or acute. Petals pink or white, obovate or suborbicular. Stamens 45–50, ca. 1/2 as long as petals. Styles 5, ca. as long as stamens, pubescent or lanose basally. Pome fragrant, yellowish red, ovoid or subcylindric. 6–7 cm diam.; sepals caducous; fruiting pedicel short or nearly absent. Fl. Mar–May, fr. Sep–Oct. (Flora of China)

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