It is a small deciduous tree that grows 5-8 m tall and 4-6 m wide, related to apples and pears, and like them has a pome fruit is bright golden yellow when ripe pear-shaped, 7-12 cm long and 9.6 cm. The berries are green. It is antiscorbutic, nutritious, carminative and parallel. It is used in colisting diahorrea, dysentery, diarrhea and constipation. It is aromatic, cooling, astringent, febrifuge [...]