Question
I recently bought a home with a shrub in the back yard that has a small roma tomato looking pod that blooms a flower resembling a carnation.  It is very dark orange and full of blooms.  The bush is about 8 ft tall and just as wide.  Our local nursery had no clue what it is.  He researched some and told us it was a flowering Quince but upon looking that up all over the internet there is no mention or view in pictures of the "pod" and the flowers have a carnation type of ruffled flower petals and are very "full", not the 5 petals described in most. It has dark green foilage and has "woody" branches.  Please help?

Answer
sounds like it could be a pyracantha. flowering quince and pyracantha both have thorns. 1st a plant produces flowers. they get crosspolinated and then they produce a seed pod(fruit). there are millions of plants out there, so w/out seeing it i can't be sure.  send a digital photo(jpeg format) to       [email protected].         put Plant ID on the subject line or i may not open it.....    
and i can give you more of a positve answer