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Help in identifying this plant

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Hi
we have this plant in the shady corner of our garden.
it is about 2 feet height and has not grown much over last 5 years.
i have attached picture of the flowers and leaves.
can anybody identify it?
many thanks

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  • Mojisola
    Mojisola Posts: 35,571 Forumite
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    The flowers look like Japanese Quince but it's really stunted if it's that small.
  • -taff
    -taff Posts: 15,327 Forumite
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    edited 25 April 2020 at 6:33PM
    Chanomeles Japonica...it is indeed quince. an ornamental one but you can still use the fruit as normal if you have any. I have one in my front garden that's only started going really in the last year and it's been in there for three.
    If it hasn't grown much it either doesn't like it where it is, or there's not enough food for it.
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  • Davesnave
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    I have one too in the same hideous colour. Mine's grown a little, but it doesn't go with anything else that's out at present and I must have been having a really off day when I bought it!
  • -taff
    -taff Posts: 15,327 Forumite
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    I don't mind, I'm growing it for the fruit, nothing like a nice bit of quice jelly or quince and apple tart or some membrillo....Luckily I got some from freecycle last year so made all three of the above. Such  a lovely christmassy smell when you keep them in the house to ripen...
    Non me fac calcitrare tuum culi
  • Davesnave
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    I had a look and mine's grown a lot, but I worked out it's been in situ since 2013. Here it is, clashing with everything else.....
    Mind you, taste is in the eye of the beholder, so if someone really likes a plant, they should grow as much of it as they like.


  • twopenny
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    It is a Japonica. There is more than one type, the big shrub that bears fruit sometimes but there's another that is a very slender branched and stays small. It bushes up if you prune the top of the branches. I had both and the short slim one only bore one fruit once Made a nice dwarf hedge at the back of a bed.

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