View source for Chaenomeles speciosa

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|accepted_name=Chaenomeles speciosa
|accepted_authority=(Sweet) Nakai
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Jap. J. Bot.
|place=4: 331. 1929
|year=1929
}}
|common_names=Common flowering-quince
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=F
|label=Selected by author to be illustrated
}}{{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=I
|label=Introduced
}}
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Cydonia speciosa
|authority=Sweet
}}
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Rosaceae;Rosaceae subfam. Amygdaloideae;Rosaceae tribe Gillenieae;Chaenomeles;Chaenomeles speciosa
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Rosaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subfamily</small>[[Rosaceae subfam. Amygdaloideae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>tribe</small>[[Rosaceae tribe Gillenieae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Chaenomeles]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Chaenomeles speciosa]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 9
|mention_page=
|treatment_page=page 485
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Shrubs,</b> 2–20 dm. <b>Branches</b> purplish brown or blackish brown, smooth (not verrucose with age). <b>Leaves</b>: stipules of vegetative branches usually reniform or suborbiculate, rarely ovate, to 1 cm, margins serrate, teeth triangular, apex acute; petiole 5–10 mm; blade ovate, elliptic, or narrowly elliptic, 3–9 × 1.5–5 cm, base cuneate to broadly cuneate, margins serrate, apex obtuse to acute, abaxial surface glabrous or hairy on veins. <b>Flowers</b> 30–50 mm diam.; sepals suborbiculate, rarely ovate, 3–4 mm; petals scarlet red, rarely pinkish or white, ovate or suborbiculate, 13–24 mm; stamens 40–50, equal to petals. <b>Pomes</b> yellow or yellowish green, globose or ovoid, 40–60 mm diam. <b>2n</b> = 34 (China).</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering Apr–May; fruiting Aug–Oct.
|habitat=Vacant lots, old fields, fencerows, wastelands
|elevation=0–500 m
|distribution=Conn.;D.C.;Ky.;La.;Mass.;Mo.;N.Y.;N.C.;Ohio;Pa.;Tenn.;W.Va.;Wis.;Asia (China);introduced also in Europe.
|discussion=<p>Chaenomeles speciosa is cultivated as an ornamental for its showy spring flowers and, occasionally, for medicinal use. Putative hybrids of C. japonica and C. speciosa are called C. ×superba (Frahm) Rehder. They also are cultivated and may be expected to spread occasionally through the dumping of garden waste. The putative hybrids are difficult to distinguish from C. speciosa.</p>
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name=Chaenomeles speciosa
|author=
|authority=(Sweet) Nakai
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=
|basionyms=Cydonia speciosa
|family=Rosaceae
|phenology=Flowering Apr–May; fruiting Aug–Oct.
|habitat=Vacant lots, old fields, fencerows, wastelands
|elevation=0–500 m
|distribution=Conn.;D.C.;Ky.;La.;Mass.;Mo.;N.Y.;N.C.;Ohio;Pa.;Tenn.;W.Va.;Wis.;Asia (China);introduced also in Europe.
|introduced=true
|reference=None
|publication title=Jap. J. Bot.
|publication year=1929
|special status=Selected by author to be illustrated;Introduced
|source xml=https://jpend@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/9216fc802291cd3df363fd52122300479582ede7/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V9/V9_817.xml
|subfamily=Rosaceae subfam. Amygdaloideae
|tribe=Rosaceae tribe Gillenieae
|genus=Chaenomeles
|species=Chaenomeles speciosa
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