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    Enduring Appeal

    Dec 31, 2020 3 minutes
    WORDS KERRIE LLOYD-DAWSON

    Not only are the delicate-looking spring flowers of chaenomeles surprisingly long-lasting at a time of year when colour is scarce, but an individual shrub can live for decades – Caerhays Castle in Cornwall has a plant that is over 100 years old. Originating from China and Japan, it is also known as flowering quince, Japanese quince or japonica, probably because the botanical name of chaenomeles is such a tongue-twister (sha-no-MA-leez according to the advice in Plant Names Simplified, 3rd Edition).

    Chaenomeles is a genus of three species of deciduous, usually thorny shrubs. Their

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