SC - Medlars and Sorb Apples
Decker, Terry D.
TerryD at Health.State.OK.US
Mon Sep 6 15:06:06 PDT 1999
Sorbs are the fruit of several different trees of the genus Sorbus in the
rose family. S. domestica and S. torminalis are commonly referred to a
service trees and have brown fruit. S. aucuparia is a rowan and has
orange-red berries. I think the sorb apple may be the fruit of the service
tree.
Bear
> sheltons at conterra.com writes:
>
> << Can anyone who isn't horticulturally impaired explain what these are
> and
> whether they're still used today? >>
>
> Sorb apples apparently are a variety that may have been grown by the
> Wends, a
> Slavic people that inhabited East Germany, but I have been unable to
> verify
> this info. Given the word is most likely a basis for sorb, I would venture
> to
> guess that it also is a type of crab apple.
>
> Ras
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