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

Medlar fruit with golden autumn leaves isolated on white background.

The medlar or common medlar - Mespilus germanica, brown edible sweet fruit with seeds against blue sky in the garden, Ukraine

Istanbul, Turkey-December 7, 2021: Orange ripe medlars in a white ceramic plate on a dark turquoise green rough concrete floor. In the composition, next to the plate, there is a knife cut into a medlar and a linen napkin with a red stripe on the edge. There are also medlars spilled on the floor. Shot with Canon EOS R5.

A plate of ripe medlar fruits arranged on a white dish, set against a rustic wooden table. The fruits have a brownish hue and a slightly wrinkled texture, typical of their ripened state.

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

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

The fruit af a medlar tree, also Asperl, in the winter in the Salzkammergut, Austria, Europe

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

A close-up of dried fruits hanging on bare branches, illuminated by soft natural light. The earthy tones and intricate details evoke a sense of seasonal transition and nature's cycle.

Closeup detail of mature, edible, ripe, fruit and autumn foliage of organic Common Medlar (Mespilus germanica, Dutch medlar) showing concave pit. Blurred leaves in background. Autmnal colours in sunset evening light.

Left-over apple harvest rotting on the ground in Winter.

medlar fruits or Mespilus germanica is used in traditional medicine for their diuretic and astringent effects

many common medlar on tree with snow, autumn

A curious fruit, the medlar. Also known as a custard apple, it belongs to the apple sub-family. It is not edible until it has frozen and thawed again. This adaptation perhaps means that its seeds are distributed in the following 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. A relevant quote from 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.).

Medlar dry fruit in color cup on green tablecloth with shadow

A close up of a fruit of Mespilus germanica, also named common medlar on a tree

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