Medlar Fruit

Does anyone out there have a medlar tree and perhaps some fruit to spare? If I could get my hands on a couple of scions I might even try grafting them to some kind of dwarf fruit tree experimentally. I've found sources for the tree on the web but no fruit to buy (yet).

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Gary, could you describe the taste of this fruit, please? I am not at all familiar with it.

Looks like a mutant persimmon.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medlar

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Gary, could you describe the taste of this fruit, please? I am not at all familiar with it.

Cynthia, I've never had it, but have recently learned that it's Zari's favorite fruit. She gets it only when she goes back to Iran and then only in winter. There's a lot about it on the web, to include Wikipedia, but here is one interesting blog entry: http://adambalic.typepad.com/the_art_and_mystery_of_fo/2007/07/medlar-fruit-an.html.

Stuart, you're right. It looks like a persimmon, but it ain't.

Just learned more about medlar than I ever thought I'd want to know. Actually went a few other places after Wiki.

Shakespeare knew the fruit. From Romeo and Juliet,

Now will he sit under a medlar tree,
And wish his mistress were that kind of fruit
As maids call medlars, when they laugh alone.
O Romeo, that she were, O that she were
An open-arse and thou a poperin pear!

Gary, could you describe the taste of this fruit, please? I am not at all familiar with it.

Cynthia, I've never had it, but have recently learned that it's Zari's favorite fruit.

And here I was thinking you were Zari's favourite fruit.

Gary, could you describe the taste of this fruit, please? I am not at all familiar with it.

Cynthia, I've never had it, but have recently learned that it's Zari's favorite fruit.

And here I was thinking you were Zari's favourite fruit.

Oh, boy! Now that's a straight line I'm going to have to pass on. By the way, as he hijacks his own topic, the question came up in casual conversation today. Watermelons. Do they grow them in Oz and, if yes, do they export them?

No idea, Gaz. I know you buy watermelon here, not sure where they're grown. Will investigate.