Weird fruit

[Wimpling]

Can anyone knowledgeable help me identify this? It's come from a bush in my new garden that is about 3 feet high. This is the biggest one (2.5 inches long) but there are lots about the size of an almond.

I have no idea what it might be but I want to know! Google hasn't suggested anything.

Can you cut it in half and show us a photo of the inside?

A photo of some leaves would help id it.

Quince maybe?

I was also thinking quince, we used to have one. OP is it an evil spiky plant?

If you cut them in half and they have seeds/ developing seeds and they oxidise, then they're probably quinces.

Ooh, thanks for the replies!

I thought quinces were a different shape but I've never actually seen one! Or maybe I have now

I've cut it open and also taken a picture of the bush. Does that help?

Ooh that's creepy when cut open

Trying again

Looks like a sad little quince to me

Having problems with my bush!

Oh that doesn’t look like a quince...

Japanese quince, has beautiful flowers in the spring
www.rhs.org.uk/plants/3463/i-chaenomeles-speciosa-i/details

It's a quince but a bit undernourished looking!
The flowers in spring are beautiful.

@Ohsugarhoneyicetea great minds!

Is it a feijoa?

Oh, that's fantastic, thank you! Yes, the red flowers look right. It has another plant climbing through it and it's difficult to tell which plant the flowers belong to. The other plant has weird dark blue berries - like blueberries but brighter and with black bits near the stem. It's a source of wonder, that bush!

Thanks so much, I'm delighted to know I have a Japanese quince! Off to see what I can do with the wee fruit now

I thought it looked like a feijoa too

@haba I didn't see your reply before. I've tasted it and it's definitely not a feijoa - that's meant to be nice, right? Mine needs sugar!

We're off to make candied quince slices now

Ha! You need to name change- you're not a wimp if you're eating random things out of the garden! Don't think I'd have tried it...

dark berries on a climbing vine could be honeysuckle. Be careful, some are edible (and apparently tasty) but the common ones in the UK are not. Also black bryony is possible, and definitely not edible!

@Guineaguinea

dark berries on a climbing vine could be honeysuckle. Be careful, some are edible (and apparently tasty) but the common ones in the UK are not. Also black bryony is possible, and definitely not edible!

The climbing honeysuckles are poisonous. The edible one is a bush

It looks weird.
The quince variety which is edible has a very distinctive (beautiful somewhat citrusy) fragrance, larger, with a powdery layer on the outside which rubs off by hand and seeds are small although clustered in little chambers like in your picture, there would be several seeds in each chamber and they are dark brown in colour; also fruit has a different shape (smaller on the bottom end).
Maybe it's some kind of decorative quince?
I wouldn't use this one for eating.
The real deal looks like this:

www.realfoods.co.uk/shop?search=Quince

Also, an uncooked traditional quince would be a very tough fruit, you can eat it raw but a weird experience as it has a weird texture and feels very sharp and very astringent (difficult to explain but if feels like the inside of your mouth is closing in) you'd have to cut it in thin slices to eat wouldn't really bite from the fruit as you'd do with an apple.

I'm very intrigued obviously 😂 but google says you can use the cooked fruit of a japanese quince as a normal quince. I imagine similar tough texture and perhaps it also turns sweet when cooked. Therefore I stand corrected.
So if indeed is Japanese quince and you are still alive after experimenting, please update, I'm very curious and love learning about unusual plants.

Definitely quince. Try making membrillo.