plant

Quince

Nature

The named Cydonia oblonga of classical and Near Eastern love-fruit and preserve speech. Not apple as the Lots orchard round, and not pear as the kin pome.

Also known as Cydonia oblonga · Cydonia

  • Quince is used in Medicine.

    Dioscorides’ De Materia Medica lists quince (κυδώνιον) among astringent fruits used raw, cooked, and in compounded stomach and flux medicines. A named quince in that handbook, not apple as the neighboring orchard fruit already walked and not a preserve-recipe dump alone.

    from Pedanius Dioscorides · De Materia Medica, 1st century CE

    used in · sourced · documented

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