In a message dated 3/19/04 2:45:07 PM Eastern Standard Time,
jtthompson@EIRCOM.NET writes:
<< Anyone know anything about Japanese apples? I've just been given a
root from a big blossoming bush with bright pink flowers.
Might it be a Japanese crabapple?
http://www.treekeepers.com.au/Pages/Species%20Pages/page%2010/Species%2010-2%2
0Japanese%20Crabapple.htm
http://www.midwestlandscapeplants.org/plantdetails.cfm?speciesid=683
Mary Ann
Anyone know anything about Japanese apples? I've just been given a
root from a big blossoming bush with bright pink flowers.
Hmm. Hard to say. It wasn't growing like a tree, but like a
basket-willow, with multiple branches coming up from a central root.
The blossoms are big and bright pink - in the illustrations more like
Adams Flowering Crabapple, but paler pink. I haven't seen it in fruit
yet, but am told that the fruits are large and rather tough.
Japanese apple in Ireland tends to mean japanese quince - chaenomeles
japonica. Red is the most common but there are plenty of pink forms around.
The fruit looks like a small yellow apple. You can use it for preserves
like a true quince or mix it in with apples in any apple dish. Not as
scented as a real quince but not too bad as a substitute if you can't get
the real thing.
kathryn
This came from France, though.
A 'pomme japonaise' is malus pumila but your description doesn't sound like
it to me - there is a picture at
http://plants.usda.gov/cgi_bin/plant_profile.cgi?symbol=MAPU
How big does the one you got a cutting from grow?
kathryn
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Like this?: http://www.bonsaiboy.com/catalog/product527.html
This is a bonsai, but they grow 5-7 feet outdoors.
Nope, doesn't look like that. The one my cutting is from is about,
umm, six or seven feet tall, but it's a bush rather than a tree -
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Nope, doesn't look like that. The one my cutting is from is about,
umm, six or seven feet tall, but it's a bush rather than a tree -
lots of branches coming up from a central root. Pink blossom.
> Like this?: http://www.bonsaiboy.com/catalog/product527.html
Nope. Bright, bright pink blossoms, and multiple stems coming up out
of the ground like suckers.
Kathryn is most probably right though.
john
> Japanese apple in Ireland tends to mean japanese quince - chaenomeles
> japonica. Red is the most common but there are plenty of pink forms
around.
That sounds more like a quince.
Margaret L
Gardening in Intermountain West and Handicapped gardening
www.margaretlauterbach.com
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Nope. Bright, bright pink blossoms, and multiple stems coming up out
of the ground like suckers.
Okay. Sounds a lot like my big stand of quince called Pink Lady :
http://www.crocus.co.uk/plantingideas/results/?ContentType=Plant_CardClassIDx4CategoryID=
If so - these are hardy and spread easily. The quinces look like small pears.
Ada
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> That sounds more like a quince.
Hmmm. Must bring some of the leaves out and compare them with my
quince. You may be right - it does have thorns.
The blossom was definitely that colour, and I think also that shape.
Bet that's what it is. Maybe the French for "quince" is "Japanese
apple", or something.
Chaenomeles are called "Japanese quince" in Australia, I did once
make jelly with the fruit but it wasn't that great.
I have a hedge (unclipped) of the common red one, it's as tough as
old boots and the small birds love it. The red flowers are nice in a
vase in winter when there's not a lot of other colour about.
Shelley
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Shelley Harvey
Northern Tablelands of NSW
Australia
email: sharvey@pobox.une.edu.au
