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Mespilus germanica - Fruits - Click to enlarge!

Fruits; Palmengarten, Frankfurt am Main, Germany; 9/2008 © Jörn Germer

Mespilus germanica - Fruit, close up - Click to enlarge!

Fruit, close up; Palmengarten, Frankfurt am Main, Germany; 9/2008 © Jörn Germer

Mespilus germanica - Fruit, divided in halves - Click to enlarge!

Fruit, divided in halves; Palmengarten, Frankfurt am Main, Germany; 9/2008 © Jörn Germer

Mespilus germanica - Upper and lower surface of leaf - Click to enlarge!

Upper and lower surface of leaf; Palmengarten, Frankfurt am Main, Germany; 9/2008 © Jörn Germer

Mespilus germanica - Habit - Click to enlarge!

Habit; Palmengarten, Frankfurt am Main, Germany; 9/2008 © Jörn Germer

Dataset

Identifier: 938
Date of entry: 29.09.2008
Last update: 11.01.2020

Common name

English: Common Medlar

German: Mispel

Portuguese: Nespereira-europeia

Classification

Kingdom: Plantae (2715)

  Phylum: Tracheophyta (2630)

    Class: Magnoliopsida (2217)

      Order: Rosales (124)

        Family: Rosaceae (60)(family description)

          Genus: Mespilus (1)

            Epithet: germanica L. (2)

germanica => of German origin

Characteristics

Climate: temperate

Habitat: mesophytic

Habit: tree

Flower colour: white

External links

Check for Mespilus germanica at

World Flora Online, GBIF or IPNI

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