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Ripe medlar, Mespilus germanica, fruit in close up on a tree with a background of blurred leaves.

$Small deciduous, spiny tree to 6m, with stiff branches; twigs roughly-hairy. leaves oblong, finely toothed or untoothed, shiny dark green above, grey-hairy beneath. Flowers white, or slightly pink, 25-36mm, solitary on short leafy shoots; sepals slender, spreading between the petals. Fruit apple-shaped, 24-26mm, crowded by persistent sepals.\nHabitat: Hedges, thickets and open woodland, sometimes by buildings or in old orchards.\nFlowering Season: May-June.\nDistribution: Indigenous in S Europe and W Asia. Naturalized in W Europe.\n\nThe fruits are edible only when half-rotten. In cultivated forms, branches non-spiny and fruits larger. The flexible wood is used for whip handles.\n\nThe Picture is made in an Ornamental Garden.$

Fruit of Mespilus germanica, also named common medlar at a tree

Fruit of the wild German medlar (lat.Mespilus germanica)

Medlar Fuit (Mespilus Germanica) on Tree in Autumn

An Asian senior man is enjoying nature admiration - showing freshly picked starfruit

Closeup Mespilus germanica known as common medlar with blurred background in summer time

a bunch of loquat medlar growing on the tree

tree with brown medlars (Mespilus germanica) and green leaves in autumn

This photo was taken in Chorleywood, Hertfordshire, UK

loquat (Eriobotrya japonica) tiny dry fruits on the tree

Medlar, Mespilus germanica, is a deciduous tree with a crooked stem and broad crown that bears edible fruit.

Women hand picking loquats from the tree

A close-up of a ripe medlar fruit (Mespilus germanica) hanging from a tree branch, surrounded by green leaves. Captured in natural daylight, this autumn fruit is known for its unique texture and flavor. Perfect for botanical, agricultural, and seasonal themes.

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.).

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.

Image of the guabiroba fruit (Campomanesia xanthocarpa) on a branch of the tree in the Mata Atlantica forest

Medlar fruit hanging from a tree in a garden.

common medlar or mespilus germanica on a tree

Bunch of yellow juicy medlar, mediterranean fruit tree.

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