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MEDLAR (Mespilus germanicus)
Key: Boundless
A small, gnarled tree to 20ft originally from the Caucasus. Its fruit was popular with Greeks and Romans, the latter who introduced the medlar into Britain. The leaves are large and downy with a single white wild rose-like flower at the end of each twig in summer. The scent is strong and not entirely pleasant. Medlar fruit is unusual – it doesn’t fall from the tree and is only edible when it is over-ripe – very often after a few frosts or having been picked for a few weeks. Both flower and fruit are unmistakable.
Medlar essence energises personal core patterns, one’s “raison d’etre”, and helps them to develop into physical and practical expression. Increased motivation, enthusiasm and drive. A feeling of boundless energy to achieve goals.
The sacral and solar plexus chakras are strengthened. There is an increase in joy and happiness, and a deep “gut feeling” of safety and security. Creativity and the finest levels of self-awareness are more easily grounded into the practical desire to manifest and make real. Personal needs and neuroses are put into a broader context of the underlying enfoldment of the universal energies. Small selfishness is tempered by a feeling of secure expansiveness.
There is an expansion of strength, humour, brightness and creative intelligence that affects both the emotions and the spirituality.
Signature: The fruits remain attached to the tree: security, confidence. Adverse conditions only serve to “blet” or ripen, the internal sweetness.