Quince, the pride of winter.
榲桲，冬的驕傲，花極美，果極香。
榲桲，冬的驕傲，花極美，果極香。
| Quince | |
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| Cydonia oblonga fruit and tree |
Cultural associations[edit]
- ...Although the book of Genesis does not name the specific type of the fruit that Adam and Eve ate from the tree of knowledge of good and evil in the garden of Eden, some ancient texts suggest Eve's fruit of temptation might have been a quince.[20]
- In Plutarch's Lives, Solon is said to have decreed that "bride and bridegroom shall be shut into a chamber, and eat a quince together."[21]
- In the famous children's poem, "The Owl and the Pussycat" by Edward Lear (1871), "they dined on mince and slices of quince ..."
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