Herbario Virtual del Mediterráneo Occidental
Àrea de Botànica, Departament de Biologia, Universitat de les Illes Balears
Mespilus germanica L.
Family : ROSACEAE
Genus : Mespilus
Catalan common name : Nesprer.
Spanish common name : Níspero. Nispolero.
General distribution : East Mediterranean
Flowering time : May. June.
Life-forms : Macrophanerophyte.
Habitat : Cultivated specie.
Uses and properties : Edible or foodstuffs. Medicinal.
Observations : The loquat or medlar is only edible when it is overripe.
Origen : Països europeus del Mediterrani Central i Oriental que arriba fins a les illes de Sardenya i Sicília.
Location on-campus UIB : Molt poc freqüent, s'observa un exemplar darrera l'hivernacle.
Description : A shrub or small deciduous tree that can reach up to 4 m in height. Leaves are long and elliptic and more or less hairy, with a simple or finely serrate margin at the apex, with very little petiole. Flowers are large, white, 3-4 cm in diameter, which emerge between the leaves. The fruits, the loquat or medlar, are in the shape of a top, some 4 cm in diameter, with top half flat and crowned with the teeth of the calyx.
Flowering period : May.
