medlar tree
A small tree with brown fruits that have a conspicuous open end surrounded by persistent pointed sepals.
Mespilus germanica
All languages
- English
- medlar tree
- Norwegian
- ekte mispeltre
- Japanese
- セイヨウカリン — せいようかりん — seiyoukarin
- Korean
- 양모과 — yangmogwa
- Spanish
- níspero europeo
- French
- néflier commun
- German
- Mispelbaum
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Reference sources
- RHS — medlar spreading small tree, oblong autumn-colouring leaves and small brown fruit
- Flora of North America — Mespilus gray-brown bark, narrow oblong nearly entire leaves and brown rough pomes with persistent five sepals
- University of the Balearic Islands herbarium — medlar top-shaped fruit with flat upper calyx crown