Citation: Miller, Gard. Dict. edn 8:no. 1 (1768).

Synonymy: C. vulgaris Pers., Syn. Pl. 2:40 (1807).

Common name: Quince.

Description:
Shrub or small tree, sometimes suckering, unarmed, deciduous; twigs and young growth villous-pubescent; leaves stipulate, petiolate, ovate to ovate-elliptic, villous-pubescent below, glabrescent above, entire.

Flowers 4-6 cm diam., solitary, terminal on short shoots; sepals reflexed; petals white or pink; stamens 15-25; ovary densely pubescent, inferior; styles 5, free, densely pubescent at their base.

Fruit large, a globose to subpyriform pome, at first pubescent, yellow, fragrant, stone cells abundant; seeds numerous.

	Cydonia oblonga
Image source: fig 237 in Jessop J.P. & Toelken H.R. (Ed.) 1986. Flora of South Australia (4th edn).

Distribution:  Widely cultivated, persisting in old gardens, sparingly naturalised along creeklines in higher rainfall districts. S.Aust.: NL, SL. Conservation status: native Flowering time: late spring, Oct.

SA Distribution Map based on current data relating to specimens held in the State Herbarium of South Australia

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