Pyrus salicifolia

Plant Characteristics

Cultivation

Scientific Names

Read about Pyrus salicifolia in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture

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. 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 It may be out of date, but still contains valuable and interesting information which can be incorporated into the remainder of the article.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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