Callery Pear

Growth habit

Tree

Perennation

Long-lived polycarpic perennial

Native distribution

Korea

Location

Zucker Shrub Collection

Source of plant

Peter Podaras

Description

Tree or often only a large shrub, the new shoots thornless becoming thorny with age; similar to P. calleryana but smaller in all respects. Leaves often elliptic-ovate, base broadly cuneate, 2.5-5 cm long, the petiole 2-2.5 cm long, pubescent; flowers appear after the leaves (before the leaves on P. calleryana) held in clusters of 2-8; fruits about 1.3 cm thick without stone cells (P. calleryana has stone cells).

USDA Hardiness Zone

5

Special characteristics

growth habit