The Only Fruit That Grows Through Winter! Why Stores Won’t Sell It?
Автор: GreenHollow
Загружено: 2026-01-10
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There’s a fruit hanging from bare branches in English hedgerows right now. Brown, wrinkled, crowned with a star-shaped calyx. It was picked after the first frost in November. Now, in December, it sits in a bowl, softening, browning further, waiting. When it looks completely rotten—soft as a bruised banana, flesh the color of caramel—it's finally ready to eat. This is the medlar. Medieval Europe's primary winter fruit. Shakespeare mentioned it in Romeo and Juliet. Chaucer wrote about it in The Canterbury Tales. It stores for three months without refrigeration, tastes like spiced apple butter, and survives temperatures that kill most fruit trees. You will not find it in a single grocery store. Victorian-era nursery catalogs from the 1880s stopped listing it, calling it "unmarketable" and "unsuitable for polite cultivation." A fruit that requires frost to ripen. And a Victorian scandal that erased it from history.
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