Directory of Mespilus Resources

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The genus Mespilus currently contains the medlar, a fruiting plant commonly cultivated in medieval Europe but now relatively rare. It may also contain Stern's medlar, an extremely rare plant native to a single plot in Arkansas discovered in 1996. The allocation of Stern's medlar to the genus is controversial.

Resources in This Category

• Mespilus caucasica

  http://www.mobot.org/mobot/research/leguide/species/998.html
  Image of a herbarium specimen.

• Mespilus germanica (NCGR Corvallis)

  http://www.ars-grin.gov/ars/PacWest/Corvallis/ncgr/cool/medlar.html
  Layman's description of the medlar, together with photographs of the plant in fruit and flower.

• Mespilus germanica (University of Catania)

  http://www.dipbot.unict.it/orto/0654-1.html
  Photograph of the medlar in fruit.

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