3338.000 Pyrus L. - Pears

Staples, G.W. & Herbst, D.R. (2005) A Tropical Garden Flora; plants cultivated in the Hawaiian islands and other tropical places. Bishop Museum Press, Honolulu, Hawaii.

Description of the genus

Tree. Leaves simple, often long-petiolate, blades usually lanceolate-ovate; margins finely serrate. Inflorescence a corymb or umbel-shaped. Flowers 5-parted; calyx lobes narrowly triangular; white, often pink in bud. Fruit a fleshy pome, usually golden brown.

Derivation of name: Pyrus: the classical name for a pear.

Worldwide: About 70 species, all native to temperate Eurasia.

Zimbabwe: 2 cultivated taxa.

Pyrus pyrifolia

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SpeciesContent
communis L.
pyrifolia (Burm. f.) NakaiDescription, Image

Other sources of information about Pyrus:

External websites:

ePIC (electronic Plant Information Center): Pyrus
Flora Zambesiaca web site: Pyrus
Google: Web - Images - Scholar
GRIN (Germplasm Resources Information Network) taxonomy for plants report for Pyrus
Wikipedia: Pyrus
IPNI (International Plant Names Index): Pyrus
Kew Herbarium catalogue: Pyrus

Copyright: Mark Hyde, Bart Wursten, Petra Ballings and Meg Coates Palgrave, 2002-23

Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T., Ballings, P. & Coates Palgrave, M. (2023). Flora of Zimbabwe: Cultivated plants: genus page: Pyrus.
https://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/cult/genus.php?genus_id=2155, retrieved 25 March 2023

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