#medlar — Public Fediverse posts

Planted three saplings this lunchtime. Thanks to my wife, two were Christmas presents. Apple, Wild service tree and Medlar. #treeplanting #allotment #apple #malus #medlar #mespilus #WildService #sorbustorminalis

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #The6MixWithMaryAnneHobbs

Medlar & Ishmael:
🎵 Bell, Everywhere

#Medlar #Ishmael

https://westfriends.bandcamp.com/album/bell-everywhere-ep

https://open.spotify.com/track/28UyVtmDKgaYpzWn95hjrh

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #The6MixWithMaryAnneHobbs

Medlar & Ishmael:
🎵 Bell, Everywhere

#Medlar #Ishmael

https://westfriends.bandcamp.com/album/bell-everywhere-ep

https://open.spotify.com/track/28UyVtmDKgaYpzWn95hjrh

Our very young medlar had a very succesful year, now waiting till they soften.
Who has tasted these? I love their cinnamon-applesauce-apricot like flesh
#autumn #medlar #gardening

It's this time of year again for those who have one of these trees near them! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hkqbIuTj3g
#nature #fruit #medlar

This is not a great advertisement for a fruit variety, LOL. #gardening #fruit #medlar

@PhoenixSerenity

I'm intrigued.

Useful website said go for the "Dutch" variety.

Going to check with my local nursery.

Also this...

https://saveplants.org/plant-profile/?CPCNum=5000

Stern's Medlar (Mespilus canescens) native to the US, but...

"The known range of Mespilus canescens is within the 22-acre Konecny Grove Natural Area."

...and nowhere else! Wow!!

#Endangered #Trees #Medlar

@PhoenixSerenity

Cool. It is possible to narrow it down. Too many refs, so I'm including the whole query...

https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ftsa&q=identifing+birds+by+their+nest+shapes+and+materials

Never heard of Medlar before, very interesting...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mespilus_germanica

Thanks!

#Birds #BirdNests #Medlar

#Mespilus germanica, #medlar awaiting bletting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bletting
Once they have bletted (have blet?) the inside is mushy like apple sauce, and you can squeeze it out and eat it out of hand or use it for various kinds of preserve.

#garden #gardening #flowers #horticulture #photography #bloomscrolling #botany

All set for this year's medlar harvest, including the weather❄️🌨
#forgottenfruits #medlar

I picked up some medlar at the Bellingham Farmers Market, but they need to go through the bletting process (aka, go rotten) for a few weeks before the fruit's interior is ready to eat and/or use in jams or fruit butter.

Medlar, aka "open-arse fruit," were popular for centuries and featured in Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales" and Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet," but they fell out of fashion and mostly forgotten about by the 1950s.

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20210325-the-strange-medieval-fruit-the-world-forgot

#Medlar #Fruit #BellinghamWA

Oh, my. What a faff I have let myself in for--a projected 83 weeks before I even see if the germination schedule worked. The things I do for #foodhistory, but necessary since medlar saplings seem to be unobtanium in Canada. #medlar #Rosacea #Mespilusgermanica

#Vss365 (#Gardener's version)

Miss Avaline began,

"What you see before you are some of the most #Unusual fruits on earth.
Let me introduce you.

Few know the #Medlar. It's squishy & tastes like apple butter.
#Quince has an apple fragrance, too.

This #Aronia or #Chokeberry reminds me of raspberries - the juice stains.

And this crazy-looking guy is #Durian. I'll slice it open & see if you notice a SHIFT in the #Aroma - from sweet to stringent & back again. It's a very pungent scent-shifter."

@piggo
Medlar!
Wow, I’ve never seen or tasted a #medlar. And what a colour. I think I’d imagined medlar fruit/pulp as being a dirty brown colour.

Went to check on the medlars growing across the street. They’re not ready yet.

#UnusualFruit #Medlar #FoodNotLawns

Luckily I got my hands on quite a few medlars. I have absolutly no experiences with this long forgotten fruit. Any recipe suggestions? ☺️

#medlar #forgottenrecipes #food #recipes #Mispeln #foodhistory #recipes