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Ripe medlar, Mespilus germanica, fruits on a tree with leaves blurred as the background.

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

Mespilus germanica, known as the medlar or common medlar, is a large shrub or small tree in the rose family Rosaceae.

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 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.

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

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

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.

Medlar fruit on tree with fresh green leafs in middle of hot summer

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.

Close up shot of medlar fruit in a tree.

Fresh medlar shrub with fruit close up outdoors

Common medlar (Mespilus germanica) fruit on a medlar tree.

Common medlars on a tree (Mespilus germanica)

Mespilus Germanica is a Deciduous Tree with Fruit that can be Used in Jellies and Deserts

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