Japanese Quince

$15.00 MDL265.88
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Chaenomeles-Japonica

Japanese Quince or Hemenomeles - a bush with high decorative properties, early honey plant with medicinal fruits.
Hemenomeles is widely used in landscape design. Some forms reach a height of up to 2 meters. Bushes of Japanese Quince tolerate a haircut, so that it can be used as a hedge. And fruits contains high concentration of vitamines and bio-active substances!

Japanese Quince or Hemenomeles - a bush with high decorative properties, early honey plant with medicinal fruits.
Hemenomeles is widely used in landscape design. Some forms reach a height of up to 2 meters. Bushes of Japanese Quince tolerate a haircut, so that it can be used as a hedge.
The color of Japanese Quince can be from white and pale pink to red and purple. Hemenomeles is unpretentious to the composition of the soil and is able to grow even on partially sandy and rocky soils, due to which it can be used to strengthen slopes. But, of course, Quince of Japan develops much better on fertile and deep soils.
The declared frost resistance of some varieties is up to -20 C. Adults, formed plants of the Hemenomeles successfully winter and in more severe winters without shelter. The homeland of Japanese Quince is Asia. It has been cultivated in Europe for more than 200 years, mainly as an ornamental plant. Breeders bred Japanese Quince varieties almost without thorns, with various shapes and colors of flowers and with large fruits.
The fruits ripen in August-October, depending on the growth zone. The high content of vitamins and biologically active substances in the fruits of Hemenomeles attracted the attention of both academic and traditional medicine. The fruits of Japanese Quince began to be used for the preparation of extracts, compotes, jams ... consumed fresh for healing and strengthening immunity. Only vitamin C in them is 10 times more than in Lemon.
Propagated by seeds, cuttings and division of the bush.
On our site you can buy Japanese Quince seedlings of different varieties and ages.

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