Exposure: Full sun to light shade. Zone 4.
Soil: Prefers well-drained, well-limed, yet moist soil but can tolerate drought once established better than most edibles.
Growth habits: Self-fertile quince trees form beautiful small trees to 18 feet high and 10 feet wide. The lovely white to pink blushed 3 inch mid spring blooms will often escape late frost and are sweetly fragrant. Quince's large, fragrant, sour to sweet. juicy fruit ripen in fall and are usually used in cooking or preserves. The leaves and exfoliating bark of the tree quince are quite attractive as well and contribute to what is a well-behaved, much underutilized small fruiting tree.
Landscape uses: Use tree quince as a small specimen tree, in foundation plantings, shrub borders, or home orchards.
Edible/Medicinal properties: Quince’s firm, crisp, fragrant, white-fleshed fruit can be quite large and, due to its high pectin content, is used in cooking, often with apples to make pies, preserves or butters. Due to its high pectin count it does have some medicinal qualities as well. The fruit is astringent, cardiac, carminative, digestive, diuretic, emollient, expectorant, pectoral, peptic, refrigerant, restorative, stimulant, and tonic. The unripe fruit is very astringent; a syrup made from it is used in the treatment of diarrhea and is particularly safe for children. The fruit, and its juice, can be used as a mouthwash or gargle to treat mouth ulcers, gum problems and sore throats. The leaves contain tannin and pectin. Tannin can be used as an astringent whilst pectin has a beneficial effect on the circulatory system and helps to reduce blood pressure.

$45.00 / 7 gal.