Callery Pear

Description:

The Callery Pear (Pyrus calleryana) is native to eastern Asia but planted widely as an ornamental in urban and suburban residential and commercial areas in the United States. Numerous cultivars have been developed and are clonally propagated. Wild populations of Callery Pear can now be found throughout much of the United States, generally in open or disturbed habitats.

Habitat:

Open & previously cleared/disturbed lot between industrial complex and uncultivated wetlands/drainage area.

Notes:

Evidence of last year's fruit on this supposedly "sterile" cultivar is still clinging to some branches on this specimen. This is small & emerging thicket of naturalized callery pears (you can see the likely parent trees peeking overthe hill in the background; those trees are part of an intentional landscape planting.)