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29-11-2007, 09:01 AM posted to uk.rec.gardening
Nick Maclaren
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Fruit and therefore plant ID, please
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(Nick Maclaren) writes:
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(Nick Maclaren) writes:
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| | There is one species of Chaenomeles that I have not seen (or at least
| | not noticed at Kew or elsewhere!) - C. cathayensis. Given that it
| | looks SO much like one of that group of the Rosaceae, and I can't
| | think of any that match except for Chaenomeles, that's work looking
| | into.
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| There is also Pseudocydonia sinensis, but that doesn't usually have
| grooved fruit, either!
And Docynia, and possibly a few other genera that I have never heard
of! But I can't find any pictures or fruit descriptions of most of
them - Bean has enough to make grooving on Docynia doubtful, and to
rule out Heteromeles, but the Web fails pretty dismally.
Regards,
Nick Maclaren.
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