Rosaceae

Cydonia oblonga

Cydonia oblonga

Cydonia MILLER Cydonia oblonga MILLER Ömür: Çok yıllık Yapı: çalı veya ağaççık Hayat formu: İlk çiçeklenme zamanı: 5 Son çiçeklenme zamanı: 6 Habitat: ormanlar ve çalıllar Minimum yükseklik: 10 Maksimum yükseklik: 1000 Endemik: - Element: ? Türkiye dağılımı: Türkiye Genel dağılımı: Kafkasya, K. İran, Horasan (Kopet Dağı) ve K. Irak Bulunduğu kareler:A1 A2 A3 A4 A6 B1 B7 C3 C5

C. oblonga Miller, Gard. Dict. ed. 8: no. 1 (1768). Syn: Pyrus cydonia L., Sp. PI. 480 (1753); Cydonia vulgaris Pers., Syn. PI. 2: corrigenda (1807). Ic: Hegi, I1I. Fl. Mittel-Eur. 4(2): f. 1024 (1922).   Large shrub or small tree up to 8 m; twigs sparsely tomentose when young, becoming glabrous. Leaves ovate to oblong or occasionally suborbicular, up to 10 x 7 cm, entire, bilaterally white-tomentose at first, becoming glabrous above and densely villous beneath; petiole 1-2 cm. Flowers 4-6 cm diam., sepals glandular, toothed, reflexed. Fruit pyriform or subglobose, (3-)5-12 cm, yellowish, fragrant. Fl. 5-6. In forests and scrub, 10-1000 m; widely cultivated, and escaping. Cultivated throughout Turkey but especially in W. Anatolia. A1(E) Çanakkale: Angadere, Ingoldby 20! A2(E) Istanbul: nr. Çengel Köy, naturalized, Reck. A2(A) Bursa: Bursa, Wall 18! A3 Sakarya: Lefke, 100 m, cult., Bornm. 13404. A4 Zonguldak: Çayçuma to Perşembe, 10 m, D. 37670! A6 Amasya: Erbaa, 300 m, cult., Tobey 1572! Bl Çanakkale: Thymbra, Kimar-Su, Sint. 1883:18! B7 Erzincan: Egin (Kemaliye), Kemerkoep, Sint. 1890:2486! C3 Antalya: Korkuteli, 100 m, Tengwall 778! C5 Cilician Taurus, Kotschy. Is: Lesvos, Jera, Rech. Samos, Rech. 2002!   Native in Caucasia, N. Iran, Khorassan (Kopet Da.) and possibly N. Iraq. Widely cultivated in Turkey for its edible fruits (the Quince, in Turkish-'Ayva'). The wild forms have smaller fruits-only about 5 cm long.