Mespilus
Mespilus, commonly called medlar, is a monotypic genus of flowering plants in the family Rosaceae containing the single species Mespilus germanica of southwest Asia. A second proposed species, Mespilus canescens, discovered in North America in 1990, proved to be a hybrid between M. germanica and one or more species of hawthorn, and is properly known as ×Crataemespilus canescens.
Plant
Mespilus are deciduous large shrubs to small trees growing up to 8 metres (26 ft) tall. The fruit is a matte brown pome.
History
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 was a very popular fruit in Western Europe during the Victorian era, but has fallen out of favour there.
Podcasts:
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by Loudon Wainwright Iii
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by Loudon Wainwright
Muse Blues
by: Loudon Wainwright IiiI went down to library you know the big one way down
town
I went down to the library you know the big one way
down town
I pulled out my spiral notebook and my scripto pencil
These these these are the words that I did put down
I’m a dud-fire cracker I ain’t got any fuse
I ain’t got no inspiration since I lost my muse
I’m a table with two legs, I’m a spider with five
I’m going down slow muse when will you arrive
Oh muse where are you?
Oh muse where are you?
You know I eat, drink and I smoke stuff
I don’t know what to do.
I went to the mountain and the desert too
I was there ladies so where were you
I’m a flattened out wave I ain’t got any curl
I’m an empty old oyster I ain’t got any pearl
Muse where are you?
Oh muse where are you?
You know I eat, drink and I smoke stuff
I don’t know what to do.
Sit up late, stay up wait. It’s a rule of thumb she’s
got to come
Sit up late, stay up wait. It’s a rule of thumb she’s
got to come
I take lots of cold showers and I go for long walks
I wait for a pitch but the fickle bitch barks
Took a shot of whisky and a snort of cocaine
Opened up my head and stuck electrodes in my brain
Oh muse where are you?
Where are you muse where are you?
You know I eat, drink and I smoke stuff
I eat, drink and I smoke stuff
I eat, drink and I smoke stuff