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The tree has fragrant yellow flowers about 5 cm across and grows to a height of about 15 m (50 feet). The anchovy pear tree bears spear-shaped, glossy leaves produced in palm-like tufts that reach an average length of 90 cm. The edible, brown, berrylike fruits for which it is cultivated for pickling are not related to the common pear.
They are small to medium-sized trees, growing to 5–15 m (16–49 ft) tall. The leaves are evergreen, alternate , simple, broad lanceolate , very large, up to 1 m (3 ft 3 in) long, with an entire or waved margin.
Rust, Kern's pear Gymnosporangium kernianum. Rust, Pacific Coast pear Gymnosporangium libocedri. Rust, pear trellis (European pear rust) Gymnosporangium fuscum. Rust, Rocky Mountain pear Gymnosporangium nelsonii. Side rot Phialophora malorum. Silver leaf Chondrostereum purpureum. Sooty blotch Gloeodes pomigena. Thread blight (Hypochnus leaf blight)
Over 3000 cultivars of the pear are known. [1] The following is a list of the more common and important cultivars, with the year and place of origin (where documented) and an indication of whether the pears are for cooking, eating, canning, drying or making perry.
These tables show pear production by country data from the Food and Agriculture Organization Corporate Statistical Database. [1] The estimated total world production for pears in 2022 was 26,324,874 metric tonnes , up by 2.8% from 25,616,665 tonnes in 2021. [ 1 ]
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Grias cauliflora – anchovy pear, from the tropics of the Americas; Heritiera littoralis – puzzle fruit, from Southeast Asia; Lodoicea maldivica – coco de mer, from the Seychelles; Manicaria saccifera – sea coconut, from South America; Pandanus spp. – screw pines, from the Old World tropics
The anchovy is a significant food source for almost every predatory fish in its environment, including the California halibut, rock fish, yellowtail, shark, chinook, and coho salmon. It is also extremely important to marine mammals and birds; for example, breeding success of California brown pelicans [ 13 ] and elegant terns is strongly ...