Quince

Quince. Have you heard of it? I've heard of the flowering quince, a beautiful bright red blooming bush that shocks our senses in early spring with its burst of color. But research just "quince" and you get an explosive panoply of yellow fruit ~ 

It turns out, the flowering quince is an ornamental, fruitless variety ~ a hybrid to please gardeners. The fruited quince is a cousin of the apple and pear, and part of the pome fruit family. According to HomeGuides SFGate website, "This 'golden apple' of Greek mythology, and perhaps the apple of Adam and Eve, grows well in a Mediterranean climate." Now that's a discovery indeed...

A bright screen-shot from a Google search for Quince