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Pyrus salicifolia, Pall. Small tree, often spiny, becoming 30 ft.
tall, with gray-tomentose branchlets: lvs. willow-like, 2-3 in. long,
(whence the name), linear-lanceolate or lanceolate,mostly tapering
toward both ends, entire or very nearly so, hoary beneath: fls. white,
in corymbs, short-pedicelled: fr. round-pyriform, short stemmed, yellow
or greenish, about 3/4in.diam., the calyx persistent. Caucasus,
Armenia. G.C. II. 14:145. G. 34:305.—A showy spring-flowering small
tree, hardy in the northern states, and worthy of being better known.
Var.pendnla, Hort., has drooping branches. G. 22:649. P. canescens,
spach, is perhaps a form or hybrid of P. salicifolia: lvs. lanceolate
or narrow-elliptic, about 2 1/2in- long, at apex acute or mucronate,
minutely crenulate, sometimes twisted, tomentose.
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==References==
*[[Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture]], by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963
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<!--- xxxxx *American Horticultural Society: A-Z Encyclopedia of Garden Plants, by Christopher Brickell, Judith D. Zuk. 1996. ISBN 0789419432 -->
<!--- xxxxx *Sunset National Garden Book. Sunset Books, Inc., 1997. ISBN 0376038608 -->
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