Pyrus calleryana

Plant Characteristics

Cultivation

Scientific Names

Read about Pyrus calleryana in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture

Pyrus calleryana, Decne., although Chinese, in lf. resembles the crenate-serrate Eurasian type rather than the sharp-eerrate or setose-serrate Chino-Japanese type: lvs. ovate, mostly rounded at base, small, crenate, glabrous: fls. small, with only 2 or 3 styles, in a glabrous infl.; stamens about 20: fr. size of a pea. globular but contracted abruptly into a long slender stalk, calyx deciduous. The above text is from the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture. It may be out of date, but still contains valuable and interesting information which can be incorporated into the remainder of the article. Click on "Collapse" in the header to hide this text.

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References

• Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture, by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963

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