欧楂花（Mespilus germanica）（带音频）

might have come to the UK with the Romans. They were popular in the UK in the Middle Ages and among the Victorians, although now they're much rarer. They were well known to Anglo Saxons and Shakespeare knew about them: Mercutio a close friend too Romeo. In Romeo and Juliet.Now will he sit under a medlar treeAnd wish his mistress were that kind of fruitAs maids call medlars, when they laugh alone.O Romeo, that she were, O that she wereAn open-arse and thou a poperin pear.Medlars also appear in Chaucer and Cervantes, and feature in Culpeper's 17th century Herbal. They were supposedly a curative for a range of ailment from kidney stone to piles.

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