Quince tree of Japan
Quince tree with flowers
Pear tree of Japan

Eastern elegance
Very accommodating shrub, which adapts to all the grounds and all the areas, the quince tree of Japan enchants us by his very early flowering with the tonic colors. It is also a good defensive shrub, which produces decorative fruits, which one can make excellent jams.

Decorative and greedy
One knows three species of quince trees of Japan, shrubs null and void or small shafts, most of the time thorny, which one also calls “quince trees with flowers”. They count among the best shrubs of the beginning of spring, because of their very generous flowering and long life.
As of the end of the winter, the small corollas with the vivid colors open on naked wood and last several months, until the arrival of the young foliage. After fecundation, they give aromatic fruits #CF5B74 yellow, sometimes washed crimson, which resemble apples a little. Decorative and scented, the fruit of the quince tree of Japan also edible is once annealed. It is used same manner as quince of to make frosts. One often mixes it with pears and apples of which it strengthens savor. It also enters the composition of certain liquors.
With the autumn, the shrub takes a new attraction, with its completely remarkable foliage, of a pretty sometimes carmine gilded hue.

Bonsai with spectacular flowering
One makes excellent bonsais with the quince trees of Japan, which have the advantage of giving normal sized flowers on shafts, which is very spectacular. The formation consists in carrying out short sizes after flowering, in June and September to cause the formation of a knotty trunk. The veins are directed in the wished position, by a binding with the copper wire.

How to multiply a quince tree of Japan?

The with double or semi-double flowers or the well defined colors must be obligatorily propagated by propagation by cutting. Operate in August, with cuttings with 10 cm length bead, taken on side growths. Plant them out of pot in a mixture with equal fine fair peat and stream sand shares. The use of hormones of propagation by cutting is recommended. Cover with a plastic film or install the cuttings in a . Preserve the crop inside, a minimal temperature of 16 being necessary for the rooting. The cuttings individually at the end of October in a mould for sowing and are wintered under frame. The young seedlings flower as of the following year. Sowing is possible, after having collected seeds with complete maturity of the fruits, then to have laminated them in wet sand during all of winter. The mixture sands and seeds is sown in spring, in line, open ground. The lifting can take two months. The first flowers appear after three to five years of crop.