What fruit is this? ***(pics!)?

Question

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Just moved and found this fruit growing on a tree in my yard!

Thanks in advance!

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Answer 1

well pull one off and cut it through the middle but dont taste it as it could be poisionus.

just smell it and if you dont know just ask an allottment keeper or local community!

Answer 2

That&#039;s a quince, and they are a relative of the apple family, but they cannot be eaten raw, they MUST be cooked.  Most people use them in preserves or chutneys, but you can also blanch them in boiling water and make a quince pie, similar to an apple pie......they have a very distinct flavor, kind of like a combination of an apple, banana and an orange.....Enjoy!!

BTW, at Whole Foods, those go for over 7 bucks a pound.......

Christopher

EDIT:  Here&#039;s a bit of info from Wikipedia:

For other uses, see Quince (disambiguation).

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.



Quince - Cydonia oblonga Mill.Quice,raw

Nutritional value per 100 g (3.5 oz)

Energy 60 kcal   240 kJ

Carbohydrates     15.3 g

- Sugars  12.53 g

- Dietary fiber  1.9 g  

Fat .10 g

Protein .4 g

Water 83.8 g

Vitamin A equiv.  40 μg  4%

Niacin (Vit. B3)  0.2 mg   1%

Vitamin B6  0.04 mg 3%

Folate (Vit. B9)  8 μg  2%

Vitamin C  15.0 mg 25%

Calcium  8 mg 1%

Iron  0.7 mg 6%

Magnesium  8 mg 2%  

Phosphorus  17 mg 2%

Potassium  197 mg   4%

Sodium  4 mg 0%



Quice, raw

Percentages are relative to US

recommendations for adults.

Source: USDA Nutrient database

The Quince (pronounced /kwɪns/), or 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 &quot;Bengal Quince&quot;.

Contents [hide]

1 Origins

2 Cultivation and uses

3 Cultural associations

4 References

5 See also

6 External links



[edit] Origins



Pear and quince output in 2005The fruit was known to the Akkadians, who called it supurgillu [2]; Arabic سفرجل safarjal = &quot;quinces&quot; (collective plural). The modern name originated in the 14th century as a plural of quoyn, via Old French cooin from Latin cotoneum malum / cydonium malum, ultimately from Greek κυδώνιον μήλον, kydonion melon &quot;Kydonian apple&quot; (in the figurative sense, similar to pomodoro - Italian word for tomato literally meaning &quot;apple of gold&quot;, pomme de terre - the French word for potato, literally meaning &quot;apple of the ground&quot;, and the classical &quot;golden apple&quot;). The quince tree is native to Iran, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Turkey, Albania, Republic of Macedonia, Greece, and Bulgaria, but the Greeks grafted from a superior strain from ancient Kydonia (Greek: Κυδωνία), now Khania, a port in Crete, whence both the common and better-preserved genus name. The Lydian name for the fruit was kodu.[citation needed]

Cultivation of quince may have preceded apple culture, and many references translated to &quot;apple&quot;, such as the fruit in Song of Solomon, may have been to a quince. Among the ancient Greeks, the quince was a ritual offering at weddings, for it had come from the Levant with Aphrodite and remained sacred to her. Plutarch reports that a Greek bride would nibble a quince to perfume her kiss before entering the bridal chamber, &quot;in order that the first greeting may not be disagreeable nor unpleasant&quot; (Roman Questions 3.65). It was a quince that Paris awarded Aphrodite. It was for a golden quince that Atalanta paused in her race. The Romans also used quinces; the Roman cookbook of Apicius gives recipes for stewing quince with honey, and even combining them, unexpectedly, with leeks. Pliny the Elder mentioned the one variety, Mulvian quince, that could be eaten raw. Columella mentioned three, one of which, the &quot;golden apple&quot; that may have been the paradisal fruit in the Garden of the Hesperides, has donated its name in Italian to the tomato, pomodoro. This interesting fruit can also be eaten cooked or raw. They are an excellent source of vitamin C.

[edit] Cultivation and uses



Quince foliage and ripening fruitQuince is frost hardy and requires a cold period below 7 °C to flower properly. The tree is self fertile, however yield can benefit from cross fertilization. The fruit can be left on the tree to ripen further which softens the fruit to the point where it can be eaten raw in warmer climates, but should be picked before the first frosts.

Most varieties of quince are too hard, astringent and sour to eat raw unless &#039;bletted&#039; (softened by frost and subsequent decay). They are used to make jam, jelly and quince pudding, or they may be peeled, then roasted, baked or stewed. The flesh of the fruit turns red after a long cooking time. The very strong perfume means they can be added in small quantities to apple pies and jam to enhance the flavour. Adding a diced quince to applesauce will enhance the taste of the applesauce with the chunks of relatively firm, tart quince. The term &quot;marmalade&quot;, originally meaning a quince jam, derives from the Portuguese word for this fruit marmelo.[1][2] The fruit, like so many others, can be used to make a type of wine.

Answer 3

Looks like the apple tree we have in our backyard.

Answer 4

They are apples, I remember stealing some that looked exactly like that when I was little from a park :).

Answer 5

looks like a grapefruit to me

Answer 6

could be apple. why dont you take one off cut it open and get someone to taste it . or ask your neighbors they might know

Answer 7

looks like either an apple or a pear. there are numerous varieties of both. some pears are perfectly round. some apples are that color green when ripe. Of course it might be a green gage plum too,