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Re: Medlar

I cannot add much to the other replies except to write of our medlar
tree which must be more than 50 years old.  It is growing in the Town
Garden and was here when we purchased the property.  I have never been
able to eat the fruit or get any of the children to like it!  The whisky
sounds a good idea, Mach, maybe I will try that.
I do enjoy the tree when it is in flower, white flowers that sit nestled
into the rather large lime-green leaves, they are larger than the pear
or quince blossom but the large leaves rather hide their beauty.  The
fruit is a bit like a chestnut in shape but at least 2 inches across,
rough to touch and sort of tawny brown in colour.  I have never seen a
seedling although all the fruit falls to the ground every year as nobody
will eat it!  I have given away scions but never heard of anyone being
succesful, I have also never seen it for sale in a nursery here in
Tasmania.   The tree formation would be similar to an old quince.
Where it is planted the garden does not receive much frost but it seems
quite resistant to cold weather

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Gay Klok Tasmania
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