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Help in identifying this plant

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60BOWENS
60BOWENS Posts: 94 Forumite
Part of the Furniture 10 Posts Combo Breaker
This plant has been there since we moved into our house 8 years ago.It flowered for the first time this year-that too 2 flowers!
It is about 2 metres tall with spindly stems.
I have attached pics of the plant and flower.
Could anyone identify this plant?
Many Thanks

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  • Justagardener
    Justagardener Posts: 307 Forumite
    Fourth Anniversary 100 Posts
    It's a cydonia oblonga... a quince 
  • 60BOWENS
    60BOWENS Posts: 94 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10 Posts Combo Breaker
    Thanks a lot!!
    It is right in front bit of our back garden,is it worth keeping?
    We really wish to use that space for an acer or cherry plant!!
  • -taff
    -taff Posts: 15,345 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Name Dropper Photogenic
    Personally, I'd keep it because I like quince, the smell and the taste , a bowlful of those ripeneing in the winter smells divine. I wouldn't swap something that is useful for something that is pretty but useless, but that's me.
    Non me fac calcitrare tuum culi
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