Cido

Variety of Japanese flowering quince · Chaenomeles japonica

Latvian selection with extremely vitamin-C-rich, lemon-like tart fruit.

Also known as: Nordische Zitrone

🇱🇻 Latvia

Taste & characteristics

sourtartaromatic

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Flowering
Fruit harvest

Given in thirds of a month (early / mid / late) for the northern hemisphere in a temperate climate; altitude and season shift them.

Yellow, apple-shaped fruit with very sour, aromatic flesh and very high vitamin C content; inedible raw but excellent for juice, syrup and jelly.

Marketed as the 'northern lemon'; basis of the Latvian Cido juice.

Site, soil, hardiness and growth follow the species Japanese flowering quince unless the variety states otherwise. Will it grow where you live? → Check your site on the species page

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