| Description | A reddish Flowering Quince. |
|---|---|
| Pronunciation | (kee-NOM-e-lez) |
| Plant Type | All Plants, Shrubs Deciduous |
| Hardiness Zone | 4-8 |
| Sunlight | full, tolerates shade |
| Moisture | average |
| Soil & Site | average, develops chlorois on high pH soils |
| Temperature | flower buds of this plant can be killed by late spring frosts |
| Flowers | red |
| Fruit | apple shaped, green pome turns to yellow, unpalatable if eaten raw, can be made into preserves, cultivars may not produce an abundance of fruit, many have sterile flowers |
| Leaves | simple, alternate, dark green, lustrous above, glabrous below |
| Stems | twiggy, thorny |
| Roots | fibirous |
| Dimensions | 3-4 by 3-4 feet |
| Maintenance | flowers borne on year old wood prune after flowering ,can be cut back hard, |
| Native Site | Species plant native to Japan and China. |
| Notes & Reference | #01-Manual of Woody Landscape Plants (Michael Dirr), #132-Dwarf Shrubs for the Midwest (Rebecca McIntosh Keith, F.F. Giles) |
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