Botanical Name: Cydonia oblongata
Family: Rosaceae
Habitat: Sunny areas
Description: Spineless shrub or tree up to 8m Leaves
alternate Flowers white or pale pink May-June. Aromatic fruit
Native To: Western Asia, Middle East
Parts used: Fruits, seeds
Harvesting: Autumn
Actions: Fruit -Astringent, nutritive
Seeds – anti-inflammatory, demulcent, laxative
Constituents: Fruits-tannins
Volatile flavour components: marmelos oxides
and lactones and quince oxepine
Sesquiterpene esters based on vulgarosides
Seeds: mucilage and pectin (20%)
Amygalin (0.4%)
Fixed oil: oleic, capric, linoleic, palmitic acids
Digestive: Fruits-diarrhoea, dysentery Seeds-constipation