Solved Help Identify fruit

Can anyone identify this fruit. It comes from an apple orchard from trees planted 5 years ago but are original species from maybe hundred years back.

I think it is probably an immature apple but not sure. It is possibly another type of fruit that has been planted in the orchard. The solid part of the fruit is approx 3 cms in diameter.

 

Looks like a medlar.

 

You are spot on although I had to google to what a medlar was. It makes sense as this is in a 200 acre historical site and they have replicated the orchard as it was a couple of hundred years back with varieties of apple from back then when the Medlar was much more common.
I doubt if many will be harvested by the locals so will pick some myself in Autumn for home use.

 

Agree with Pete.
Fruits are very distinctive.

Quote www....
"Mespilus germanica,...common name Medlar fruits, are inedible when hard and can only be eaten once they have been allowed to 'blet'. They are picked in late autumn and stored in a cool, dry place until about two weeks later they soften, become mushy and turn a darker brown. This process is known as 'bletting'."

 

Never found it easy to blet them, they seem to go mouldy first for us. However, even unbletted but really ripe they may be used to make a very acceptable jam/jelly.

 

Believe that they should be left on the tree until they fall, certainly till after first significant frost. Problem in the old orchard is badgers get to them on the ground first!