As others have said, it's definitely a Japanese quince.
The main way to distinguish it is that it will still be in leaf this time of year. Japanese quince are semi-evergreen, and only loose there leaves after a really hard frost, whereas any other tree or shrub which bears similar looking fruit are fully deciduous.
Is it a single-flowered variety? If it's a double then it will set few, if any, fruit, as they extra petals are modified from the anthers, and thus double flowers have no pollen.
I have a beautiful peach coloured double in my back garden, and it has maybe two or three fruits a year at most, despite being a large bush with hundreds of flowers each year.
The main way to distinguish it is that it will still be in leaf this time of year. Japanese quince are semi-evergreen, and only loose there leaves after a really hard frost, whereas any other tree or shrub which bears similar looking fruit are fully deciduous.
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I have a beautiful peach coloured double in my back garden, and it has maybe two or three fruits a year at most, despite being a large bush with hundreds of flowers each year.
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