Japanese Quince Tree Fruit
It is best known for its colorful spring flowers of red.
Japanese quince tree fruit. Quince trees have near relatives in ornamental shrubs that are known as flowering quince chaenomeles speciosa and japanese quince chaenomeles japonica. It is shorter than another commonly cultivated species c. Chaenomeles japonica known as either the japanese quince or maule s quince is a species of flowering quince it is a thorny deciduous shrub that is commonly cultivated. These slightly edible fruits are not to be confused with the fruit most commonly known as quince from the cydonia oblonga.
My recipe is similar to one above. It smelled and taste funny. Japanese quince from our forest garden. The leaves are dark green and coarsely toothed growing 1 to 2 inches in length.
While you can use them to make jams and jellies you ll get much better results from a quince that was bred to produce fruit. The fruit on a flowering quince is edible but the fruit on a flowering or japanese quince is extremely tart. Foliage flowers and fruit. I had read that the tree fruit was better but in my experience it is not.
In winter the leaves wither and usually fall off although dried leaves may cling to the branches throughout the winter. I made quince paste from our quince bush for several years and recently got some quince from a friend who has a quince tree. Speciosa growing to only about 1 m in height. The fruit is called kusa boke 草木瓜 kusa boke in japanese.
I cook in as little water as possible whole fruit until skins split. The japanese quince produces tangled thorny branches that are gray brown. In the autumn the tree bears small.
