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Mespilus germanica is apparently native only to southwest Asia and southeastern Europe, i.e. near the Black Sea coast and western Mediterranean, and Asia Minor, as well as the Caucasus and northern Iran, but it has an ancient history of cultivation and wild plants exist in a much wider area; it was grown by the ancient Greeks and Romans, beginning in the second century BC.
Mespilus germanica, known as the medlar or common medlar, is a large shrub or small tree in the rose family Rosaceae. When the genus Mespilus is included in the genus Crataegus, the correct name for this species is Crataegus germanica Kuntze. The fruit of this tree, also called medlar, has been cultivated since Roman times.
Common medlar (Mespilus germanica), the origin of the term (called Mispel in many Germanic languages, mispeli in Finnish, nespolo in Italian, etc.) Loquat (Eriobotrya japonica), widely traded under these names today, in particular in temperate countries; Sapodilla (Manilkara zapota), often known by these terms in tropical countries in Latin America
Mespilus or medlars, a genus of plants; Mespilus canescens, Stern's medlar, a close relative of the cultivated medlar, in family Rosaceae; Crataegus azarolus, azarole or Mediterranean medlar, in family Rosaceae; Eriobotrya, a genus formerly included in Mespilus; Eriobotrya japonica, the Japanese medlar or loquat, formerly called Mespilus japonica
The name loquat derives from Cantonese lou 4 gwat 1 (Chinese: 盧橘; pinyin: lújú; lit. 'black orange'). The phrase 'black orange' originally referred to unripened kumquats, which are dark green in color, but the name was mistakenly applied to the loquat by the ancient Chinese poet Su Shi when he was residing in southern China, and the mistake was widely taken up by the Cantonese region ...
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According to American botanist Asa Gray (1810–1888), the Lespedeza owes its name to governor of East Florida Vicente Manuel de Céspedes (1784–1790; who, through a letter, allowed botanist André Michaux to explore East Florida in search of new species of plants, where Michaux found Lespedeza [3]), but when Céspedes wrote the letter, at the beginning of it, the name of Céspedes was ...
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