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Old 04-05-2006, 10:53 PM posted to uk.rec.gardening
Nick Maclaren
 
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Default quince (cydonia) - edible?


In article ,
K writes:
| david taylor writes
| One to an apple pie gives a delicious honey like flavour. I can eat cydonia
| raw, but I also like raw lemons.
| Look for an attractively coloured variety-the cheapest cydonia tens to have
| smaller brick red flowers
|
| Do you really mean Cydonia? The 'brick red' flowers sound more like the
| 'japanese quince' which is Chaenomeles

But the answer to "Is it edible" is the same :-)


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.