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Chaenomeles japonica
Winter flowering up to 1 metre high in heavy shade amongst ivy and euclyptus. Flowers about 40mm across; leaves ovate, smooth and alternate. Spikes formed from older broken branchlets.
Growing wild in margin to dry eucalyptus forest.
Introduced ! Family Rosaceae. Related to quince but not exactly. One of 3 species. After reviewing googled images of genus I am going with C.japonica http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Chaeno...
Great IDing Despina. Thanks so much. Like I thought definitely not native. Adarsha... I agree the flower has some poppy-like colour but that's end of similarity. The stems are thin little woody sticks and poppies just can't grow here in winter.
Spotted on Jul 2, 2012
Submitted on Nov 2, 2012
