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.