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Pyrus pashia is a fruit bearing tree. Its fruit is edible and characterized as being pome. [3] It looks like the russet apple and has an astringent but sweet taste when ripe. [citation needed] The early fruit is mostly of light green color but at maturity, its color turns blackish brown with numerous yellow and white dots on its skin surface. [5]
Pyrus pyrifolia is a species of pear tree native to southern China and northern Indochina that has been introduced to Korea, Japan and other parts of the world. [1] The tree's edible fruit is known by many names, including Asian pear, [2] Persian pear, Japanese pear, [2] Chinese pear, [2] [3] Korean pear, [4] [5] [6] Taiwanese pear, apple pear, [7] zodiac pear, three-halves pear, papple ...
The fruit is a pseudofruit composed of the receptacle or upper end of the flower stalk (the so-called calyx tube) greatly dilated. [8] Enclosed within its cellular flesh is the true fruit: 2–5 'cartilaginous' carpels, [5] [13] known colloquially as the "core". [8] A bee pollinating on a pear tree blossom
Generally, the fruit shape of this species is much similar to P. communis, but with a long pedicel. Some cultivars of P. × sinkiangensis bear fruits with a persistent calyx and strong aroma, needing ripening before being edible, which is similar to P. communis. On the other hand, fruits of some cultivars are juicy and crisp and not needed for ...
FCC in 1900. AGM in 1993. Biennial bearing. Preharvest drop. Vigorous tree, erratic cropper. eating -0.5 o C 90 days: 150–170 F5 Doyenné de Mérode see Doppelte Philip Drouard see President Drouard Dr. Jules Guyot [120] [28] [121] Troyes, France: c1870 Introduced 1875: Scab resistant pear for organic gardening. Poor keeper. eating, 0 C 25 ...
Bosc Pear, from The Pears of New York (1921) by Ulysses Prentiss Hedrick [1] The Beurré Bosc or Bosc is a cultivar of the European pear (Pyrus communis), originally from France or Belgium. Also known as the Kaiser, it is grown in Europe, Australia, British Columbia and Ontario, Canada, and the U.S. states of California, Washington, and Oregon.
The whole tree The fruit. Pyrus salicifolia is a species of pear, native to the Middle East.It is widely grown as an ornamental tree, almost always as a pendulous (or "weeping") cultivar, and is called by various common names, including willow-leaved pear, [2] weeping pear, and similar.
Pyrus pyraster tree (natural monument in Bayreuth) Pyrus pyraster (syn. Pyrus communis subsp. pyraster), also called European wild pear, is a species of pear of the family Rosaceae. This wild pear and Pyrus caucasica (syn. P. communis subsp. caucasica) are thought to be the ancestors of the cultivated European pear (Pyrus communis subsp. communis).