木瓜 Pseudocydonia sinensis

  • Scientific Name: Pseudocydonia sinensis (Dum.Cours.) C.K.Schneid.
  • Ref: Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. 3:181. 1906
  • Synonyms: Chaenomeles sinensis (Dum.Cours.) Koehne; Cydonia chinensis Lindl.; Cydonia sinensis (Dum.Cours.) Thouin; Malus sinensis Dum.Cours.; Pyrus chinensis Spreng.; Pyrus sinensis (Dum.Cours.) Poir.
  • English Common Name: Chinese quince, Chinese flowering quince
  • Chinese Common Name: 木瓜 mùguā, 榠楂 míngzhā
  • Japanese Common Name: カリン [花梨/榠樝] karin
  • Family: Rosaceae
  • Genus: Pseudocydonia
  • Distribution: About 1000 m. Anhui, Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi, Guizhou, Hebei, Hubei, Jiangsu, Jiangxi, Shaanxi, Shandong, Zhejiang.
Shrubs or small trees, to 5–10 m. Branchlets purplish red, terete, unarmed, initially pubescent, soon glabrate, with pale lenticels; buds purplish brown, glabrous, apex obtuse. Stipules ovate-oblong, rhomboidal, or lanceolate, 5–12 mm, herbaceous, subglabrous, margin glandular serrate, apex acute; petiole 5–10 mm, pubescent, glandular serrate; leaf blade elliptic-ovate or elliptic-oblong, rarely obovate, 5–8 × 3.5–5.5 cm, abaxially yellowish white tomentose when young, soon glabrescent, base broadly cuneate or rounded, margin aristate and sharply serrate (teeth glandular at apices), apex acute. Pedicel short, 5–10 mm, glabrous. Flowers solitary, 2.5–3 cm in diam. Hypanthium campanulate, abaxially glabrous. Sepals reflexed; triangular-lanceolate, 6–10 mm, abaxially glabrous, adaxially brown tomentose, apex acute or acuminate. Petals pinkish, obovate, base shortly clawed, apex rounded. Stamens numerous, ca. 1/2 as long as petals. Styles 3–5, ca. as long as stamens, connate at base. Pome fragrant, dark yellow, narrowly ellipsoid, 10–15 cm, woody; sepals caducous; fruiting pedicel short. Fl. Apr, fr. Sep–Oct. (Flora of China)

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