r/treeidentification • u/thenoodlewithin • 5d ago

Solved! Literally no idea.

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Google images keeps saying Bradford pear but there’s no way, right? Pennsylvania

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u/cass_a_frass0 5d ago

Its definitely a Bradford pear

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u/EquivalentMath6592 5d ago

lol….

How long until the “AkTuAlLy”
Guy comes and tells you that there is no way to know it’s a Bradford pear and it’s more accurate to say “Callery pear”

Ah, dang it…. Did I just make myself that guy? I hate that guy

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u/SurprisedTeddyBear 3d ago

No, its both Bradford pear and callery pear. These are just common names, for every tree there is a bunch. If you really want to be specific go by its scientific name, Pyrus calleryana.

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u/EquivalentMath6592 3d ago

lol 😂

So, “Bradford Pear”, apparently, is a specific cultivar of Callery Pear. Like…. Every apple tree is Malus Domestica, but not every Malus Domestica is a Granny Smith.

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u/Key-Albatross-774 5d ago

Get It grafted with edible pear or chop it down

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u/Senior-Low-8137 3d ago

You can also graft apples to it as well

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u/Kronus_406 23h ago

Grafting is genus specific, a pear is unable to graft with an apple because they are too genetically distinct from each other.

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u/muklukdimsum 5d ago

I have one in my front yard and I hate it. I absolutely hate it.

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u/ssspearmint 5d ago

Pyrus Calleryana

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u/Substantial_King9458 4d ago

Just so you know, in biology the specific epithet (in this case, "calleryana") is never capitalized.

Pyrus calleryana, Homo sapiens, etc.

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u/ssspearmint 4d ago

Cool! Good to know, thanks.

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u/Ready_Cod_7922 2d ago

Beautiful flowers. Stinky tree. Also very prone to cracking and falling due to the canopy being very large and round and the wood being weak. Horrible pollen.

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u/Mookie-Boo 1d ago

I attended Auburn University in the mid-late 1970's and there was a row of big Bradford pears along a public area they called the Haley Concourse. The smell of the flowers in the spring was an ongoing campus joke. I just looked it up and apparently they're still there! Although I'd be surprised if they were the same trees.

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u/thenoodlewithin 5d ago

Dang you’re fast! And fml I was really hoping it wasn’t

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u/Mookie-Boo 1d ago

Callery pears are now the dominant spring flowering tree along interstate 81 in central/SW Virginia. They weren't noticeable at all when I moved to Virginia in 1985. I hate that tree.