Chaenomeles japonica (Thunberg, 1780) Lindl. ex Spach, 1834

Stalažs, Arturs, Sviķe, Silga & Veckalne, Aiga, 2022, Chaenomeles japonica (Maleae, Amygdaloideae, Rosaceae): validation of six Alberts Tīcs’ cultivar names and two new synonyms for the species, Phytotaxa 545 (3), pp. 294-300 : 297-298

Chaenomeles japonica ‘Ada’

‘Ada’— Tīcs 2000: 6, 32 (mentions)

‘Cido Ada’— Tīcs 2000: 37 (description), new synonym

‘Ada’—Skrīvele 2020: 351 (mentions)

Description:

The plant forms a prostrate shrub, which reaches 1.5 m in wide and up to 40 cm in heigh. The first and next stage branches are spread over the ground, so they are damaged when tilling the soil. The new first and next stage branches lie flat on the old worn branches. The plant is generally healthy–vital [in Latvian climatic conditions]. Excessive branch cover prevents mechanized maintenance of the plantation. The leaf blade is roundly elongated, the tip of the leaf slightly pronounced until a round tip. The edge of the leaf is not sharply serrated to the stalk. Leaf stalk is short, about 5–8 mm. The leaf base is rounded and wedge-shaped. Stipules are large, kidney-shaped, edging is notched. On biennial shoots leaves are in bouquets, without stipules. Fruit—oblong and cylindrical, surface quince-shaped, stalk in the flesh, fruit—sessile. The leaves are dried and pressed into the flesh. Fruit’s weight is 70–100 g, size 60 × 50 mm. Fruit ripens two weeks later than ‘Alfa’.