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Scientific Name: | Pyrus calleryana |
Common Name: | ornamental pear, Callery pear |
Family Name: | Rosaceae |
Origin: | S.E. Asia / Japan / China |
Hardiness Zone: | Zone 5: (-29 to -23 °C) |
Plant Type: | Tree - deciduous |
Mature Size: | 10 - 15m x 7 - 10m (height x width) |
Habit: | Upright |
Form: | Pyramidal - widely |
Texture: | Medium |
Landscape Uses: | Attract beneficial insects, Attract birds, Specimen plant |
Exposure: | Full sun |
Soil or Media: | Rocky or gravelly or dry, Well-drained |
Leaves: | Simple, Alternate, Glabrous, Ovate, Entire |
Flowers: | Corymb, White, Apr-May |
Fruit: | Edible, Pome, (Accessory tissue), Green, Brown, Aug |
Key ID Features: | |
Leaves alternate, leathery, mostly hairless, ovate, blades 7-10cm long, margins scalloped, petioles mostly 5-10cm long; florets about 2cm wide, in white in corymbs about 8cm wide, late April to early May. |