Common pear tree (Pyrus pyraster)
Appearance: Mostly a smaller tree in height 5-15 m, sometimes growing up to 20 meters. The crown is also conical and elongated in older trees,, less often roundly vaulted or wide and spread out. The trunk is usually slightly bent or sloping.
Branches upright or wide apart, quite short and profusely branched. Dark brownish-blackish bark, gently cracked, it peels along and across. Shoots only hairy at first, later completely naked and brownish. Oblong donuts are approx 5 mm long and brownish. Older branches usually bear spurs transformed into thorns.
Leaves only on shoots, quite thin, roundish-elliptical have 3-7 cm long and are often almost as wide. Round or heart-shaped at the base, serrated or very finely serrated. briefly pointed at the front, slightly shiny on top, vivid green. The leaf petioles are long 2-5 centimeters,
The flowers unfold simultaneously with the foliage and are gathered in multi-flowered tops on the shoots, Single flowers up to 4 cm have pure white petals of the crown and pale green sepals. Ovaries are not fused.
The fruit is more or less long 2-3 cm and the same thickness, jugular or spherical, brownish yellow and warty due to spiracles.
Habitat: The common pear tree likes fertile habitats, washed-fresh, definitely warm in summer.
Occurrence: A species found only singly in thickets or luminous,, warm deciduous forests, planted in places.
Flowering period: April to May.
General thoughts: The wild pear tree is one of the starting forms of many cultivars, grown in orchards. They were known and liked already in antiquity, and they arose from the crossing of various wild species, from the Middle East. All in all, both a set of varieties, like descending from a particular species, are very vague. Feral cultivars, similar to apple trees, will soon take on the characteristics of starting plants yes, that they cannot always be distinguished from the native wild pear tree. This pear tree is also called "wooden pear" – the name comes from the very hard flesh of the fruit, The fruit does not crumble until very late in autumn (usually after the onset of frost) and then they attract bird lovers. In classical Latin, a pear is called a pirus. Linnaeus, however, chose another, currently accepted spelling.