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Cydonia oblonga Mill.

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Cydonia oblonga Mill.
Cydonia oblonga Mill.

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Exotic
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New Zealand
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Mill.
Mill.
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Cydonia oblonga Mill.
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Cydonia oblonga

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oblonga

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Cydonia oblonga Mill.

Large shrub or small tree up to 5-(8) m high and several m diam. when mature; trunk short or 0 and plants sometimes forming small suckering thickets; upper branches often arching; stems dark brownish red and felted when young. Petiole (4)-6-14 mm long; blade ovate to broad-elliptic, oblong or suborbicular, 30-80 × 25-50 mm, rounded to subacute at apex, obtuse at base, white-tomentose at first on upper surface, becoming glabrate and dull, white- to grey-tomentose below; margin entire; stipules lanceolate. Fls 30-50 mm diam. Sepals densely tomentose, persistent; lobes oblong, acute, glandular, sharply reflexed. Petals oblong, 12-25 mm long, rounded or slightly emarginate. Fr. pyriform or subglobose, usually 80-150 mm long, yellow, ± finely tomentose, fragrant, with apical cavity.

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Cydonia oblonga Mill.
Cydonia oblonga Mill.

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Cydonia oblonga Mill.
New Zealand
Canterbury Land District
Cydonia oblonga Mill.
New Zealand
North Auckland Land District
Cydonia oblonga Mill.
New Zealand
Wellington Land District

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1 January 2000
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