Maud Gordon Holmes Arboretum

Scientific name: Pyrus calleryana

Common name: Callery pear

Native: No

Native range: Native to Korea and Japan [6].

Distribution in North America: Click to view the USDA Plants Database page for P. calleryana.

USDA Zones: 5-9A [1]

Maximum age: Lives healthily to about 20 years before succumbing to ice and snow damage [1].

Ecology: The fruits are eaten by birds and small mammals that then disperse its seeds [1,5], and the flowers may be visited by pollinating insects [7].

Ethnobotany: It is mainly used as a street and ornamental tree because of its abundance of white flowers, though it is short-lived due to its fragility in the face of snow and ice damage [1,2,3,4,5,6,7].