形态描述
灌木或小乔木，高达5-10m，树皮成片状脱落；小枝无刺紫红色，二年生枝紫褐色。叶片椭圆卵形或椭圆长圆形，长3-10cm，宽1.5-8cm，先端急尖，基部宽楔形或圆形，边缘有刺芒状尖锐锯齿，齿尖有腺，幼时下面密被黄白色绒毛，不久即脱落；叶柄长5-10mm，有腺齿。花淡粉红色，单生于叶腋，花梗短粗，长5-10mm，无毛；花直径2.5-3cm；萼筒钟状外面无毛；萼片三角披针形，长6-10mm，先端渐尖，边缘有腺齿，外面无毛，内面密被浅褐色绒毛，反折；花瓣倒卵形；雄蕊多数，长不及花瓣之半；花柱3-5，基部合生，被柔毛。果实长椭圆形，长10-15cm，暗黄色，木质，味芳香，果梗短。花期4月，果期9-10月。
分布地区
见于西湖景区（金鼓洞），城区公园也有栽培。分布于安徽、广东、广西、湖北、江苏、江西、山东、陕西、浙江。
主要用途
果实味涩，水煮或浸渍糖液中供食用，入药有解酒、去痰、顺气、止痢之效。
中国植物志英文版
Cydonia sinensis Thouin, Ann. Mus. Hist. Nat. 19: 145. 1812; Pseudocydonia sinensis (Thouin) C. K. Schneider; Pyrus cathayensis Hemsley; P. chinensis Sprengel; P. sinensis (Thouin) Poiret. Shrubs or small trees, to 5–10 m. Branchlets purplish red, terete, unarmed, initially pubescent, soon glabrate, with pale lenticels; buds purplish brown, glabrous, apex obtuse. Stipules ovate-oblong, rhomboidal, or lanceolate, 5–12 mm, herbaceous, subglabrous, margin glandular serrate, apex acute; petiole 5–10 mm, pubescent, glandular serrate; leaf blade elliptic-ovate or elliptic-oblong, rarely obovate, 5–8 × 3.5–5.5 cm, abaxially yellowish white tomentose when young, soon glabrescent, base broadly cuneate or rounded, margin aristate and sharply serrate (teeth glandular at apices), apex acute. Pedicel short, 5–10 mm, glabrous. Flowers solitary, 2.5–3 cm in diam. Hypanthium campanulate, abaxially glabrous. Sepals reflexed; triangular-lanceolate, 6–10 mm, abaxially glabrous, adaxially brown tomentose, apex acute or acuminate. Petals pinkish, obovate, base shortly clawed, apex rounded. Stamens numerous, ca. 1/2 as long as petals. Styles 3–5, ca. as long as stamens, connate at base. Pome fragrant, dark yellow, narrowly ellipsoid, 10–15 cm, woody; sepals caducous; fruiting pedicel short. Fl. Apr, fr. Sep–Oct. About 1000 m. Anhui, Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi, Guizhou, Hebei, Hubei, Jiangsu, Jiangxi, Shaanxi, Shandong, Zhejiang.----from “Flora of China”
