Quince produces pretty pink flowers in spring and fruits up to 15 cm in size in autumn. The fruits are soaked in sugar or honey and diluted with hot water to make a sweet and sour throat remedy.
The number of fruits increases or decreases every other year, but this year is a good harvest year. There are now many fruits on the branches and they are gradually getting bigger.
However, when typhoons come in the summer and autumn and shake the branches, most of the fruits fall off before they are ripe. Because of this, there are only a few years when we can harvest a lot of fruits.
カリンは春に可愛らしいピンクの花を咲かせ、秋には15センチほどにもなる実をつけます。その実を砂糖やハチミツに漬けて、お湯で薄めて甘酸っぱい喉の薬ができます。
実の数は隔年毎に増減しますが、今年は豊作の年です。今、枝にはたくさんの実がついて、段々大きくなってきています。
でも、夏から秋にかけて台風がやってきて、枝を大きく揺らすと、大半の実が熟す前に落ちてしまいます。そんなこともあって、なかなかたくさんの実を収穫できる年は少ないです。
Chinese quince in the Bluebell Garden between the wild cherry and the Mube (Stauntonia hexaphylla) vine on the arch ヤマザクラとムベのアーチの間、ブルーベルの庭にあるカリン |
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