Fruit
Monstrous
B tier
Monstrous is an old descriptive medlar cultivar name for unusually large fruit—more marketing of size than a different flavour chemistry. Bletted flesh is still apple-butter-spiced and brown. Appears in historic catalogues beside Dutch and Royal large types. Treat as large-fruited medlar culture: tray blett, spoon, jam. Verify true-to-name if size is the purchase reason. Fun educational fruit for orchard tours explaining bletting.
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Characteristics
Preparations
Blett SpoonHeritage LabelJamTour Educate
Traits
Blett SameBrown SoftCatalogue CuriosityCuriosityHistoricHistoric LargeHugeNovelty Name
History
GB
Monstrous medlar was catalogued as a large novelty type.
GB
Victorian lists kept Monstrous among curiosity fruits.
Name survived in pomological references more than mass nurseries.
Collectors occasionally restored Monstrous labels to big medlars.