Description

Considered the best flavoured Medlar, producing a heavy crop of medium sized fruits with a pleasant caramel flavour. Excellent eaten with wine, port and cheese, although are more commonly used to make into a Medlar Cheese.

Medlars have a flat topped weeping habit with large leathery leaves and large white flowers in spring, followed by large russetty rose hip like fruits and reddish-orange autumn leaves.

Propagated onto 'Quince A' rootstock to produce a tree with moderate vigour. Trees are self fertile and will fruit within three years.

Growing Instructions

They are best grown in a warm sheltered garden, hence they are more often seen in the south of the country.