Details for: PI 693445, Mespilus germanica L., Tzanetakis Variegated Medlar

Summary Data

Taxonomy:

Mespilus germanica L.

Top Name:

Tzanetakis Variegated Medlar

Origin:

Collected – Oregon, United States

Maintained:

National Clonal Germplasm Repository

Received by NPGS:

02 Feb 2012

Improvement Status:

Cultivated material

Form Received:

Cutting

Life Form:

Tree

Life Habit:

Tree

Availability

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Core Passport Data

Taxonomy:

Mespilus germanica L.

Top Name:

Tzanetakis Variegated Medlar

Origin:

Collected – Oregon, United States

Maintained:

National Clonal Germplasm Repository

Received by NPGS:

02 Feb 2012

Improvement Status:

Cultivated material

Form Received:

Cutting

Life Form:

Tree

Life Habit:

Tree

Source History

Collected

26 July 2011.
Oregon, United States
Comment: Variegated sport discovered by plant virologist Yannis Tzanetakis while evaluating NCGR-Corvallis field collections for virus-like symptoms.
Collector(s):

Tzanetakis, Ioannis, University of Arkansas

Developed

02 February 2012.
Oregon, United States
Comment: Variegated sport propagated and selected by curator Joseph Postman
Developer(s):

Postman, Joseph, USDA-ARS

Accession Names and Identifiers

Tzanetakis Variegated Medlar

Type: Developer identifier

Group: CULTIVAR

Sport discovered by plant virologist Yannis Tzanetakis

CMES 62

Type: Site identifier

Group: LOCAL

Corvallis local number

Narrative

Mespilus germanica L.

Genus:

Mespilus

Family:

Rosaceae

Subfamily:

Amygdaloideae

Tribe:

Maleae

Subtribe:

Malinae

Nomen number:

24182

Place of publication:

Sp. pl. 1:478. 1753

Typification:

View in Linnean Typification Project

Verified:

11/06/1985 by ARS Systematic Botanists.

Other conspecific taxa

Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations

Homotypic Synonym(s)
Pyrus germanica (L.) Hook. f.

Common names

Language	Name	seq	Citation
English	medlar	1	Wiersema, J. H. & B. León. 1999. World economic plants: a standard reference CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL.
French	néflier	2	Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants
German	deutsche Mispel	2	Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants
German	Mispel	2	Reichel, S. 1998. pers. comm. Note: re. German common names
German	Mispelbaum	2	Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants
Portuguese	nespereira	2	Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants
Spanish	níspero común	2	Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants
Spanish	níspero europeo	2	Burkart, A. E., ed. 1969-. Flora ilustrada de Entre Rios.
Swedish	mispel	2	Aldén, B., S. Ryman, & M. Hjertson. 2012. Svensk Kulturväxtdatabas, SKUD (Swedish Cultivated and Utility Plants Database; online resource)

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