Callery pear

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Callery pear flowers

Callery pear inflorescence

Callery pear buds

Callery pear habit

Callery pear fruit

Callery pear leaf

Callery pear fruit

Callery pear bark

Callery pear

Morphology

Trunk

Trunks erect; branches usually armed, thorns reddish brown to grayish brown, .4 to 1.2 inches, glabrous; bark gray, reddish, or orangish brown, smooth or eventually with blackish rectangular plates; wood white, hard.

Twigs

Reddish brown to grayish brown, rigid, initially tomentose, becoming glabrous with age; leaf scar triangular; buds reddish brown, ovoid, .16 to .4 inch, apex acute to acuminate, scales glabrous, glabrate, or sparsely to densely tomentose.

Leaves

Deciduous, alternate, simple; stipules caducous, free, lanceolate, .4 to .63 inch, margins entire or obscurely serrulate; petiole .8 to 1.8 inch, upper surface sparsely pubescent, sometimes also on lower surface, becoming glabrous with age; blade ovate to oblong, 1.6 to 3.6 inches long, 1.4 to 2.4 inches wide, base cuneate to rounded, margins crenulate-serrulate or entire, often with tufts of white hairs when young, becoming glabrous with age, apex acuminate, lower surface light green, glabrous, upper surface dark green, glabrous.

Flowers

Inflorescences terminal on short shoots, racemes or umbel-like corymbs, 4-9-flowered, appearing before or sometimes with leaves; peduncles 0 to .2 inch, tomentose, glabrate; pedicels .4 to 1.2 inch, glabrous. Flowers bisexual, radially symmetric, .6 to 1 inch diam.; hypanthium bell-shaped or cupular, .06 to .1 inch, glabrous or pubescent; sepals 5, reflexed, lanceolate, .14 to .2 inch long, .04 to .08 inch wide; petals 5, white, obovate, .24 to .5 inch; stamens 20; pistils 2-3(-4), mostly connate, adnate to hypanthium, glabrous; styles 2-3, terminal, distinct, glabrous.

Fruit

September-October; pomes, brown to yellowish brown with white or tan dots, globose, .4 to .6 inch diam., glabrous, not glaucous, fleshy; hypanthium persistent; sepals deciduous; carpel walls becoming leathery; seeds 1-2(-4), dark brown, reddish brown, or gray with black spots or streaks, angular-obovoid, .16 to .22 inch long, .08 to .16 inch wide, .06 to .16 inch thick, smooth.

Ecology

Habitat

Urban woodlots, pastures, fencerows, woodland margins, disturbed sites.

Distribution

Scattered in east 1/2 of Kansas

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