Quince tree

The kind Cydonia is composed of only one species called quince tree ( Cydonia oblonga or Cydonia vulgaris ). It is a shrub or a small tree of the family of the Rosacées originating in Iran.

One of the most appreciated varieties Coing comes from the area of Caned the (sometimes “Cydon”, “Kydonia”) on the north-western coast of the island of Crete. The fruit was known in the ancient Greece as “a μῆλα κυδώνια (Mela Kudonia)”, that is to say “Pomme of Cydon”, from where the scientific name of the kind, “ Cydonia ”, allotted to the quince tree.

The kind was in the past composed of four other species now distributed in two other kinds: Pseudocydonia and Chaenomeles with which one often confuses it.

Description

The young branches are tomenteux, the flowers white-rosy have 4 to 5 cm in diameter. It forms Fruit S Piriforme S bulky (the Coing S), cottony surfaces some, yellows with maturity and very odorants.

Culture

possible multiplication by Sowing or Layering but generally by Propagation by cutting at the end of the followed winter or not of Grafting
cultivated in stem or bush with a tiny size especially to air the center of the tree
harvest with the autumn and completion of maturation to the fruit-loft

Principal varieties

Quince tree of Angers whose “Sydo” is a widespread variety
Cognassier of Provence whose “BA29” is a widespread variety
of Vranja
common quince
quince champion
quince of Portugal
Aromatnaya or Krymsk: New variety being able to eat itself believed, yellow gold fruit to the citronné perfume and the taste close to the Pineapple, self-fertilizing.

Use

The quince tree is a Fruit tree cultivated for the wealth in flavor and Pectine S of its fruits which give excellent frosts and pastes of fruits.

Understock of the pear tree

The quince tree is also used like Porte-greffe of the common Poirier in spite of its strong sensitivity to the bacterial Feu. The inaptitude of the Pear tree to the traditional Propagation by cutting as well as the heterogeneity and the too great strength of the frank pear trees (resulting from Sowing) resulted in practicing Clerc's Office S on quince tree. Work of selection were thus begun on the quince tree (cutting), to obtain a range of understock of different strengths; they led to obtaining the varieties BA 29 and Sydo which represents respectively nearly a million and 200.000 sold Marcotte S each year in France.

BA 29, obtained in 1966 by selection clonale within the population of the quince trees of Provence , presents a very good multiplication by layering; it confers in Verger an average strength and a good productivity. It is of more usable like quince tree with fruits.

Sydo, Co-obtaining INRA and the Seedbeds Lepage (1975), is resulting from a selection clonale in the population of the quince trees of Angers ; its aptitude for the layering and the propagation by cutting is very good. In orchard, it confers a strength lower than that of BA29 and a good productivity.

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