{"id":2287,"date":"2017-05-01T04:00:43","date_gmt":"2017-05-01T08:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.woodturningpens.com\/?p=2287"},"modified":"2017-02-22T15:29:33","modified_gmt":"2017-02-22T20:29:33","slug":"2287-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.woodturningpens.com\/2287-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Bradford Pear"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
The widely used ornamental tree known as “Bradford Pear” or “Callery Pear” is known to botanists as Pyrus calleryana<\/em>.<\/p>\n P. calleryana<\/em> is native to China, Japan, Korea, Taiwan, and Vietnam. This species of pear bears only very small fruits that only ripen under frost condition, at which point they are consumed by birds and other animals, only rarely by people.<\/p>\n By contrast, P. communis<\/em>, the “European” or common pear bears the widely distributed and edible fruit and is a native of Central and Eastern Europe and southwest Asia. All of the different varieties of edible pear are all borne by trees of the same species, P. communis<\/em>, with the variations accounted for by different varieties within the species and perhaps, in some cases, by recognized subspecies.<\/p>\n Due to its showy white flowers which bloom prolifically in spring and due to its rapid and tidy growth habit, P. calleryana<\/em> is a common landscaping tree in most of the eastern United States. It can be found as far north as Massachusetts and New York, south through Florida, and east as far as the Mississippi River and further east in the southern states, extending into Oklahoma and Texas.<\/p>\n