There are some large specimens at the Seattle
Botanical Gardens. The fruit is quite beautiful. Like a head of
elderberries, maybe 10-15 fruits size of a cherry, some shaped like little pears
with blush on the cheek, some like little apples. They're not bad tasting,
but not as good as a pear. Interesting strong flavor, pear-like
texture. Tree must be 40 ft. But we've had trouble growing them in
the heat of middle TN. Fungus disease and apple borers down on the
trunk. Hector Black zone 6 middle tn.
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Subject: Re: [NAFEX] seruice fruit
The one that I tasted was something like a Bartlett pear.
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On Sep 21, 2007, at 7:47 AM, rob hamilton wrote:
Has anyone tried this fruit? Does it taste like
Medlar? Is it a British thing? I havent heard of anything like that be
sold hear....or is it called something else in the
states?
rob
Lee Reich <garden@leereich.com> wrote:
It's "service" fruit, which is a name applied to
some species of Sorbus.��Fruits of the Service Tree (S.
domestica,
Zone 6) and the Wild Service Tree (S. torminalis, Zone 6) are edible after they have
been bletted, or allowed to soften in a cool room, much like medlars
(Mespilus
germanica). The Romans enjoyed the brownish, pear shaped fruit, an inch
or so long, of the Service Tree, a tree very similar in appearance to the
European Mountain Ash. The Wild Service Tree is also known as the Chequer
Tree, perhaps because it frequently grows near Chequers inns common in
East Sussex. Or perhaps the inns got their names from the nearby trees. At
any rate, the fruits, russet red and the size of smallish cherries were
once made into drinks served at these inns, as well as offered in markets
in Kent and other parts of northern Europe. With sycamore-like leaves,
this large tree would hardly be mistaken for a Sorbus.�
Lee Reich, PhD
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Weedless
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On Sep 20, 2007, at 4:34 PM, rob hamilton wrote:
I can across a old illustration from 1700 shows
fruit of a Seruice. I was on the same page as Medlars Quince, and
Barberry Anyone know what this
is?
rob
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