Medlar
Mespilus germanica
In Dutch: Mispel
TreesCollection: Native species
Properties
- Height
- 4 to 6 m
- Spread
- 4 to 6 m
- Full grown after
- 10 to 20 years
- Sun
- Full sun to partial shade
- Soil
- Deep, fertile and well-drained
- Water
- Average: moist, but not wet
- Maintenance
- Low: a light prune in winter
- Flowers
- May, white
- For bees
- Yes: nectar and pollen, May
- Hay fever
- Not or weakly allergenic
- Leaves
- Drop in autumn
- Hardy
- Yes
- Native
- Yes
- Poisonous
- No
- Pricks or stings
- Yes: thorns, mainly on the wild form
- Price, young
- About €8 each, 20-80 cm, in a pot, or bare-root in a bundle of 10
- Price, grown
- About €81 to €132 each, 150-200 cm, in a pot, or multi-stemmed with a root ball
Through the year
- Leaf
- April to November
- Flower
- May
- Fruit
- October to November