Delice des Vannes

Délice des Vannes medlar tree produces abundant crops of medium-sized medlars, around 3 cm in diameter.

The flesh has a creamy texture and a pleasant aroma.

Medlars are eaten bletted, when the fruit has become very soft at its final stage of ripeness. They can be cut in half and eaten with a spoon, or pressed to extract the pulp.

The flavour is between apple and pear, close to an apple-pear compote, with additional aromas that can sometimes recall caramel.

The fruit is harvested and eaten from late October.

European medlars are very resistant to winter cold. Their very late flowering helps avoid late spring frosts, supporting regular cropping from year to year.

Délice des Vannes is self-fertile, so a single tree can produce fruit.

This medlar usually grows as a shrub or small tree of around 3 m, depending on the planting site. It tolerates pruning well, has a naturally more spreading habit than apple and pear trees, and its ornamental foliage adds interest to the garden.

Délice des Vannes is a French variety selected in Vannes, Brittany.

We graft and train our Mespilus germanica trees in the nursery, in open ground. They are then supplied bare-root, in several tree forms and on different rootstocks depending on availability.