| 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, Soft flexible, Pinnate venation, Glabrous, Ovate, Crenate, Entire |
| Flowers: | Corymb, White, Apr-May |
| Fruit: | Edible, Pome, (Accessory tissue), Green-yellow, Brown, Aug |
| Key ID Features: | |
| Leaves alternate, leathery, mostly hairless, ovate, blades 7-10cm long x 3-5cm wide, margin minutely crenate, petioles 5-10cm long; flowers about 2cm wide, in white in corymbs ~8cm wide, late Apr-May; pomes yellowish-green to brown, 1-1.5cm wide. | |