Pyrus calleryana — Callery Pear

A rare early-20th century introduction from China with a fastigiate cultivar, ‘Chanticleer’, very widely grown as a street tree.

The leaves and flowers are like those of Common Pear, but the fruit are smaller.

 
 

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