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Pomum Pentagonum perelegans, acido dulce, vtrinque sessile.

Elegans hoc rarumque Poenum, ab Ill. Ducissa V Virtembergica, Principissa nostra Clementissima missum, cum aliis quibusdam exoticæ elegantiæ naturalibus dono accepimus: Mediocre est, & figura magnitudinem non adæquat: quippe trium aut quatuor vnciarum latum, sescuncia non altius compressum, vtrinque sessile. Parte superna, qua Pythmene, impressum. Angulis quinque protuberantibus conspicuum est, maiori parte luteis, reliqua eleganter rubicunda, punctis tamen luteis notata. Februario sectum carne satis molli erat, acidodulci, ac paene vinoso. Surculos ab eadem E. C. missos in horto E. C. quem Montbelgardi colimus, inseri curauimus. Figura vtramque faciem oppositam exprimit.

Poma quadrata vulgo dicuntur Montbelgardi Pommes carrées, propter angulos. Sunt tamen communiter pentagona, interdum Hexagona aut Heptagona, angulis nimirum per longitudinem protuberantibus, quorum pars suprema, propter vmbilieum, in gibbos & tubercula eleuatur: totumque adeo Pomum angulis scatet. Quatuor vncias alta, tres lata, sessilis, pediculo breui, flaua, punctis araneolis nigricantibus conspersa. Mense Oct. lecta, odoratasunt, sapore vinoso, acidulo, grato: carne tamen adhuc duriuscula. Ex horto E. C. Montbelgard.

I have received this rare and charming fruit from the illustrious Duchess of Württemberg, our most clement sovereign; she sent it to me along with several other exotic plants. It is medium, and does not reach great size. Indeed it is three or four inches wide, one and a half more when not compressed, and sessile on each side. [...] It was soft enough cut in February and it tasted sour-sweet and almost wine-like. [...]

In Montbéliard, these fruits are wrongly called Pommes carrées [Square apples] due to their angles. They are almost always they are pentagons, however sometimes we see them hexagons, and even heptagons. [...] From the garden of E. C. Montbelgard

— Bauhin, Jean (1650). Historia plantarum universalis [Universal History of Plants] (in Latin). Vol. 1. Ebroduni. p. 10.