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Chaenomeles thibetica; photograph (c) Kristof Zyskowski, some rights reserved (CC BY) CC BY(c) Kristof Zyskowski, some rights reserved (CC BY) · observed growing wild · 2016-10-27

Chaenomeles thibetica T.T.Yu

Tibetan Quince

Rosaceae · China South-Central, Tibet

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Chaenomeles thibetica, photograph (c) Kristof Zyskowski, some rights reserved (CC BY)Chaenomeles thibetica, photograph Kristof Zyskowski & Yulia Bereshpolova, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia CommonsChaenomeles thibetica, photograph wlcutler, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia CommonsChaenomeles thibetica, photograph wlcutler, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia CommonsChaenomeles thibetica, photograph Sten Porse, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia CommonsChaenomeles thibetica, photograph Sten Porse, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons 7 photographs ›

Summary

Chaenomeles thibetica is a species of flowering plant in the family Rosaceae. It is a tree or shrub, usually thorny, 1.5-3.0 m tall. It is native to Tibet and south-central China, and grows among shrubs in mountain valleys and on slopes. It has showy pink flowers in summer, and fruits from late summer to early autumn.

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Chaenomeles thibetica", CC BY-SA 4.0.

About the genus · Chaenomeles

Chaenomeles is a genus of four species of deciduous spiny shrubs, usually 1–3 m tall, in the family Rosaceae. They are native to Eastern Asia. These plants are related to the quince and the Chinese quince, differing in the serrated leaves that lack fuzz, and in the flowers, borne in clusters, having deciduous sepals and styles that are connate at the base.

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Chaenomeles", CC BY-SA 4.0.

Cultivation

Nothing derived: no habitat climate for this species.

Climate across the habitat

No habitat climate can be derived: Only 1 distinct land cell of the climate grid holds an in-range record placed to within 10 km; three are needed for an envelope. 13 of the 15 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km, or to no stated accuracy and fewer than three decimals or by something other than a person's observation, and cannot place a climate cell, though they count for the map and its marker.

Natural habitat

Native range as published by WCVP; the marker is where the records are densest and decides nothing.
Openly licensed records inside the range, framed on where they fall.
NativeChina South-Central, Tibet · regions are the level-3 units of the World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, as Kew's World Checklist records ranges, some under historical names such as Yugoslavia or Czechoslovakia (how).
Map marker30.1, 95.11 · in the densest population, 7 records (47% of those in range)
Kew's description“shrub or tree” · quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Evidence usedThe map marker rests on all 15 georeferenced records inside the native range; the map shows only the 11 openly licensed ones, which alone would put the marker in the same place. 1 record outside the WCVP native range not used. No climate across the range is derived for this species. 13 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km, or with no stated accuracy (admitted only as a person's observation to three decimals), and stay on the map but off the climate.
How this section is made
The map marker: the openly licensed record nearest the middle of the densest 1° population of the 15 in-range records; it decides nothing. Records outside the native range, living specimens and records marked introduced are not used; which records count.

Photographs

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Photographs: (c) Kristof Zyskowski, some rights reserved (CC BY); Kristof Zyskowski & Yulia Bereshpolova, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons; wlcutler, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (2); Sten Porse, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (2).

Other Chaenomeles 3 in the reference

Chaenomeles cathayensis Chaenomeles cathayensis Cathay Quince Photo: CC BY, chrisdtChaenomeles japonica Chaenomeles japonica Japanese quince Photo: CC0, author not statedChaenomeles speciosa Chaenomeles speciosa Chinese quince Photo: CC BY, John Roberts

Names & registers

Also known as Pyrus xizangensis. (GBIF Backbone)

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The record

Family
Rosaceae
Described by
T.T.Yu
Native to
China South-Central, Tibet
Wild records
15 in range · 11 open

Every figure here is derived from public data by a stated rule and names its source; nothing about this species is written for its page by a person or by AI, apart from the marked, credited quotations. How →

Where this page came from built 2026-10-21
GBIF species record gbif.species answeredasked 2026-10-21
GBIF synonyms gbif.synonyms answeredasked 2026-10-21
GBIF common names gbif.vernacular answeredasked 2026-10-21names fetched 2026-10-21
WCVP native range wcvp.distribution answeredas of 2026-06-04
GBIF occurrence records gbif.occurrences answeredas of 2026-10-21GBIF occurrence download https://doi.org/10.15468/dl.hbdw64, of 2026-10-21
Habitat climate climate nothing to reportasked 2026-10-21only 1 distinct land cell of the climate grid holds an in-range record placed to within 10 km; three are needed for an envelope
Wikidata wikidata answeredasked 2026-10-21
Wikipedia wikipedia answeredasked 2026-10-21
iNaturalist photographs, wild inat.photos.wild answeredasked 2026-10-22from iNaturalist's open data of 2026-09-27: research-grade observations with an open-licence photograph, the 24 whose photographs iNaturalist received last (the open data holds no votes); filled 2026-10-22
iNaturalist photographs, cultivated inat.photos.cultivated not asked
GBIF media gbif.media answeredasked 2026-10-21none of the photographs on this page is credited to GBIF: those shown are other sources', and GBIF's were the same photographs or were set aside by the photograph rules
Wikimedia Commons commons answeredasked 2026-10-21
OpenAlex papers openalex not askednot yet asked for this reference; a later fill takes the papers from OpenAlex's snapshot

Every source is recorded as having answered, reported nothing, refused, failed, not been asked, or answered twice where one answer is taken (“not taken: two items answered”), and, for a source asked when this page was built, when: the figures are as the source held them that day; a source read from a file (Kew's World Checklist, a GBIF download) says "as of" the file's day instead; a row carried from an earlier build of the page names that build instead. Only “nothing to report” is ever shown as an absence. Records came from 7 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.

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