Native to China North-Central, China South-Central, China Southeast, Tibet, Xinjiang; introduced into 36 botanical countries across Europe, Temperate Asia, Tropical Asia, Australasia, and Northern America (source: POWO). Flora of the World documents 1 occurrence across 1 country.
Location
United States, Idaho, Idaho (Mathias Botanical Garden)
-14.423056, -67.923889
Location Remarks
Los Angeles. UCLA campus, Westwood
Collectors
No collectors specified
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Class
Magnoliopsida
Order
Rosales
Family
Rosaceae
Genus
Chaenomeles
Specific Epithet
speciosa
Authorship
(Sweet) Nakai
What is EDGE?
Evolutionary distinctiveness
Lower
ED 0.1
Part of a well-represented branch of the plant tree of life, with many close relatives.
Threat status
Modelled estimate
EDGE score
0.0
Global rank
#329,786 of 335,497
Top 99%
Extinction probability
12%