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Ripe medlar, Mespilus germanica, fruits on a tree with leaves blurred as the background.
Common medlar - Mespilus germanica
Eriobotrya japonica fruits
Small deciduous, spiny tree to 6m, with stiff branches; twigs roughly-hairy. leaves oblong, finely toothed or untoothed, shiny dark green above, grey-hairy beneath. Flowers white, or slightly pink, 25-36mm, solitary on short leafy shoots; sepals slender, spreading between the petals. Fruit apple-shaped, 24-26mm, crowded by persistent sepals.\nHabitat: Hedges, thickets and open woodland, sometimes by buildings or in old orchards.\nFlowering Season: May-June.\nDistribution: Indigenous in S Europe and W Asia. Naturalized in W Europe.\n\nThe fruits are edible only when half-rotten. In cultivated forms, branches non-spiny and fruits larger. The flexible wood is used for whip handles.\n\nThe Picture is made in an Ornamental Garden.
Mespilus germanica, known as the medlar or common medlar, is a large shrub or small tree in the rose family Rosaceae.
medlar, Mespilus germanica,
common medlar with green leaves
Horizontal closeup photo of branches, leaves and round brown fruit growing on a Medlar tree in an organic garden in Autumn.
Ripe medlar, Mespilus germanica, fruit in close up on a tree with a background of blurred leaves.
Medlar fruit hanging from a tree in a garden.
Fruit of Mespilus germanica, also named common medlar at a tree.
Medlar fruits on the tree branch in the garden
Tree of medlar in late summer (Mespilus germanica). The not yet fully ripe fruits hang on several branches.
organic common medlar fruit on the branch.
a ripe yellow medlar lies on a medlar leaf. The fruit is reflected on the dark background.
The curious medlar (Mespilus germanica ) fruit belongs to the apple sub-family, and is not edible until it has frozen and thawed again. This adaptation perhaps means that its seeds are distributed in the next spring, avoiding the winter time. The shape of this fruit is so like a rose hip that it is no surprise that it belongs within the rose family. Shakespeare (Romeo and Juliet):  (Now will he sit under a medlar tree, And wish his mistress were that kind of fruit As maids call medlars...) Later, an 18th-century description:  (A fruit, vulgarly called an open arse; of which it is more truly than delicately said, that it is never ripe till it is as rotten as a turd, and then it is not worth a fart.).
tree with brown medlars  (Mespilus germanica) and green leaves in autumn
Small deciduous, spiny tree to 6m, with stiff branches; twigs roughly-hairy. leaves oblong, finely toothed or untoothed, shiny dark green above, grey-hairy beneath. Flowers white, or slightly pink, 25-36mm, solitary on short leafy shoots; sepals slender, spreading between the petals. Fruit apple-shaped, 24-26mm, crowded by persistent sepals.\nHabitat: Hedges, thickets and open woodland, sometimes by buildings or in old orchards.\nFlowering Season: May-June.\nDistribution: Indigenous in S Europe and W Asia. Naturalized in W Europe.\n\nThe fruits are edible only when half-rotten. In cultivated forms, branches non-spiny and fruits larger. The flexible wood is used for whip handles.\n\nThe Picture is made in an Ornamental Garden.
mespilus germanica fruit
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Fruit of the Medlar tree, latin name Mespilus germanica, ripening in a garden in late summer.
Ripe Nisperos Eriobotrya Japonica in Autumn
Close-up of a ripe medlar fruit hanging from a tree branch, surrounded by green leaves. The brown, textured fruit is illuminated by sunlight, showing the characteristic open calyx at the tip.
loquat (Eriobotrya japonica) tiny dry fruits on the tree
Medlar fruit on tree with fresh green leafs in middle of hot summer
Horizontal closeup photo of vibrant red leaves and brown fruit on a Medlar tree growing in a garden in Armidale, New England high country, NSW, in Autumn.
Common medlar fruit (Mespilus) on tree. Copy space
Small deciduous, spiny tree to 6m, with stiff branches; twigs roughly-hairy. leaves oblong, finely toothed or untoothed, shiny dark green above, grey-hairy beneath. Flowers white, or slightly pink, 25-36mm, solitary on short leafy shoots; sepals slender, spreading between the petals. Fruit apple-shaped, 24-26mm, crowded by persistent sepals.\nHabitat: Hedges, thickets and open woodland, sometimes by buildings or in old orchards.\nFlowering Season: May-June.\nDistribution: Indigenous in S Europe and W Asia. Naturalized in W Europe.\n\nThe fruits are edible only when half-rotten. In cultivated forms, branches non-spiny and fruits larger. The flexible wood is used for whip handles.\n\nThe Picture is made in an Ornamental Park.
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