Medlar (disambiguation)

Medlar is a small tree (Mespilus germanica) cultivated for its edible fruits

Medlar may also refer to:

Plants

• Mespilus canescens, a close relative of the cultivated medlar, in family Rosaceae
• Crataegus azarolus, azarole, also called Mediterranean medlar, in family Rosaceae
• Eriobotrya japonica, the Japanese medlar or loquat, formerly called Mespilus japonica, in family Rosaceae
• Mimusops elengi, also called Bullet wood, native to Asia and Australia, in family Sapotaceae
• Vangueria infausta, the African medlar, in family Rubiaceae
• Wolfberry, (Lycium species), also called red medlar, in family Solanaceae

Places

• A place in Aberdeenshire, Scotland
• Medlar Field at Lubrano Park, a baseball stadium in University Park, Pennsylvania
• Medlar Conservation Area, in Montgomery County, Ohio
• Medlar with Wesham, a civil parish on the Fylde in Lancashire, England

People named Medlar

• Bessica Medlar Raiche, physician and aviator
• Linda Medlar

In literature

• Common medlar, the fruit of Mespilus germanica, has been used as a metaphor
  • for age, particularly premature age
  • in British plays from the 16th and 17th centuries, references to the fruit are associated with a bawdy name for it: "open-arses"
• Giovanni Verga's novel of Sicilian peasant life is called "I Malavoglia: The House by the Medlar Tree"

See also

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Medlar flowers in heraldry.

• MEDLARS, a computerized biomedical bibliographic retrieval system