Medlar is a small deciduous tree to 6m with good autumn foliage, spring flowers, and a useful rounded shape. The small edible fruits must be ‘bletted’--Allowed to over-ripen, becoming soft to the touch--before they can be eaten. Several different fruiting cultivars are available. Shakespeare refers to the fruit somewhat lewdly in Romeo's Queen Mab soliloquy in Romeo and Juliet.
- Type
- Exotic
- Maintenance
- Low
- Water use
- Moderate
- Lifecycle
- Perennial
- Container
- Zero
- Size
- Medium Trees & shrubs 3 - 7 metres
- Foliage
- Evergreen
- Zones
- Semi-arid with winter rain, Moist temperate with warm summers, Winter rains with dry summers
- Soils
- Sandy, Loam, Clay
- Regions
- Yarra Valley Water plants
- Shade levels
- Full sun
- Flowering seasons
- Spring
- Gardens
- Backyard