Chaenomeles japonica (Thunberg, 1780) Lindl. ex Spach, 1834

Stalažs, Arturs, Sviķe, Silga & Veckalne, Aiga, 2022, Chaenomeles japonica (Maleae, Amygdaloideae, Rosaceae): validation of six Alberts Tīcs’ cultivar names and two new synonyms for the species, Phytotaxa 545 (3), pp. 294-300 : 298

Chaenomeles japonica ‘Agra’

‘Agra’— Tīcs 2000: 6, 32 (mentions)

‘Cido Agra’— Tīcs 2000: 38 (description), new synonym

‘Agra’— Almohammad et al. 2020: 14 (mentions)

‘Agra’—Skrīvele 2020: 351 (mentions)

Description:

The plant forms a 1.3 m wide and 0.7 m tall shrub. Primary branches in normal numbers, firm, straight up to 70 cm long, are not semi-bent as ‘Alfa’. A few secondary branches that branch off at a narrow-angle. The rising parts of the annual shoots freeze in unfavourable winters. The plant regenerates parts of the frozen branches well, and they do not affect the productivity of the plant. Leaf-blade rounded, leaf tips rounded. The edge of the leaf is distinctly serrated to the stalk of the leaf. The base of the leaf is rounded. The patches are large, their edges notched. Leaves on biennials are in bouquets, oblong, leaf base is slender, long and wedge-shaped. Fruit is round, weighs 45–60 g, the surface is relatively smooth, ripens earlier than all and two weeks earlier than ‘Alfa’. In some years, the fruit begins to ripen at the end of August. Fruit dimensions 40 × 44 mm. The cultivar draws attention to the early ripening of the fruit in all years.