What is a quince?

I know it's some sort of fruit, but what is it?

What is a quince?
It is a small deciduous tree, growing 5-8 m tall and 4-6 m wide, related to apples and pears, and like them has a pome fruit, which is bright golden yellow when mature, pear-shaped, 7-12 cm long and 6-9 cm broad.
Reply:It's a hard fruit which looks a little like a speckled apple. Used for making into jelly, jam, and liqueur. Too bitter to eat raw.
Reply:it looks like and apple, and tastes like an apple kinda..but is a bit less juicy...you can cook it too...its common in turkey....quite nice really
Reply:from what i no it is a throat infiction a bit like tonsilitise but worse i think the tonsills burst i have never heard of it as a fruit tho
Reply:A quince is a fruit resembling a pear that was first cultivated in the Middle East. In fact, the proverbial apple offered to Adam by Eve may actually be more accurately translated as a quince. Quinces cannot be eaten like pears or apples, with the exception of the less cultivated pineapple variety, but need to be baked or frozen to eliminate their acidity.





Once ripened, the yellowish fruit still has a hard exterior, much like a winter squash. If one is not using quinces immediately, cooking guides recommend storing them in the refrigerator for up to two weeks. The seeds are poisonous and should be discarded. The core of the quince is very hard, but using a sharp paring knife will divest the quince of both the unusable core and the dangerous seeds.
Reply:It's an apple like fruit. When you see one on a tree, it looks like an apple without a stem. It grows right up next to the branch. They're too tart to eat raw, but they're really good when added to something like a batch of apple sauce.
Reply:I have quince growing in my garden. Much too hard to eat raw - but I add some peeled and sliced to apple when I make pies. Gives an unusual piquant taste- lovely served with lashing of cream!
Reply:a quince is a hard, yellow skinned fruit, looks and tastes like a cross between an apple and a pear.


The flesh is quite dry and has an astringent, tart flavor.


It's better cooked then raw and it's high pectin content is ideal for jams and jellies.
Reply:Its like a small apple slightly dry with a similar taste to a dry pear. They are often used in dishes like caserole and fruity stews but in the main they are not worth bothering with
Reply:quince (cydonia oblonga) is a fruit of small tree related to


apples and pears.
Reply:Its a daft fruit, that is quite bitter, my gran used to have a quine bush in her garden. you can make the fruit into jam.
Reply:i think it is small and purple (perhaps) you make jam with it. I think it is quite old fashioned, you don't see it around much now
Reply:i had one on my throat but that was an abscess not a fruit
Reply:It's a hard apple like fruit, only edible when cooked, it's usually used to make jelly or preserves. It comes from an Asian shrub tree of the same name.
Reply:It is like a small apple but a lot, lot sharper, i can tell u!! we have one outside in our garden.





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Reply:Quince


Cydonia oblonga flowers


Scientific classification


Kingdom: Plantae





Division: Magnoliophyta





Class: Magnoliopsida





Order: Rosales





Family: Rosaceae





Subfamily: Maloideae





Genus: Cydonia





Species: C. oblonga








Binomial name


Cydonia oblonga


Mill.


The Quince Cydonia oblonga is the sole member of the genus Cydonia and native to warm-temperate southwest Asia in the Caucasus region. It is a small deciduous tree, growing 5-8 m tall and 4-6 m wide, related to apples and pears, and like them has a pome fruit, which is bright golden yellow when mature, pear-shaped, 7-12 cm long and 6-9 cm broad.





The immature fruit is green, with dense grey-white pubescence which mostly (but not all) rubs off before maturity in late autumn when the fruit changes colour to yellow with hard flesh that is strongly perfumed. The leaves are alternately arranged, simple, 6-11 cm long, with an entire margin and densely pubescent with fine white hairs. The flowers, produced in spring after the leaves, are white or pink, 5 cm across, with five petals.





Quince is used as a food plant by the larvae of some Lepidoptera species including Brown-tail, Bucculatrix bechsteinella, Bucculatrix pomifoliella, Coleophora cerasivorella, Coleophora malivorella, Green Pug and Winter Moth.





Four other species previously included in the genus Cydonia are now treated in separate genera. These are the Chinese Quince Pseudocydonia sinensis, a native of China, and the three flowering quinces of eastern Asia in the genus Chaenomeles. Another unrelated fruit, the Bael, is sometimes called the "Bengal Quince".
Reply:it's a fruit that is related to apples and pears, and is slightly pear-shaped. in some countries it is cooked and eaten with cheese, or made into jam.
Reply:either of two trees that produce small round yellowish fruit; fruit produced by these trees
Reply:A fragrant fruit, quince is similar in appearance to the pear and the apple.