Bereczki-Quince, Pear Quince [Cydonia Oblonga On The Tree Before Harvest In Early Summer Royalty-Free Stock Photography

The original homeland is in the Eastern Caucasus and Transcaucasus. Populations in Turkey, Iran, Turkmenistan, Syria, and Afghanistan may have resulted from long ago human dispersal. The first evidence of cultivated quince from the Caucasus dates back 4000 years, in Greece it is found from 600 BC, with the Romans from 200 BC. In Central Europe, it has been cultivated only since the 9th century, as a heat-loving plant there preferably in wine-growing areas. Quince seeds are used as a remedy for cracked skin, chapped lips, sore nipples, burns, bedsores and hemorrhoids.