The Medieval Garden Enclosed—Rotten-ripe: The Medlar Goes Soft – The Metropolitan Museum of Art https://www.metmuseum.org/perspectives/medieval-garden-enclosed-medlar
Deirdre Larkin, managing horticulturist of The Met Cloisters, discusses medlar and its significance in medieval gardens.
flesh of the medlar does not grow all the way around the core, but forms a wide depression
