A hybrid, c. japonica × c. speciosa. Mostly shrubs less than 2 m tall. Branchlets generally thorny. Leaves more like those of c. japonica. Fruits apple-shaped.
Source: (2002). Rosaceae. In: . Horticultural Flora of South-eastern Australia. Volume 3. Flowering plants. Dicotyledons. Part 2. The identification of garden and cultivated plants. University of New South Wales Press.
Chaenomeles ×superba 'Columbia'
Flowers pink to rosy red.
Flowers salmon to coral pink, single. Raised w.b. Clarke, San Jose, California, usa, 1940.
Chaenomeles ×superba 'Vermilion'
Habit dwarf. Flowers single, vermilion. Raised Barbier, France, 1913.
Chaenomeles ×superba 'Winter Cheer'
Habit dwarf, compact. Early flowering. Australia-raised. Flowers single, orange-scarlet.