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Old 03-12-2007, 06:00 PM posted to uk.food+drink.misc,uk.rec.gardening
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Default Trying to ID a mysterious fruit
Following up to (Nick Maclaren) wrote:

"Some sort of japonica", in normal usage, can mean only one of the
Chaenomeles. Japonica as the name of a group of plants means that
and nothing else.

are there not various "japanese" quinces? I understood the meaning to
be that. I had an ormamental one in the garden for a time.
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