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Pyrus pyrifolia (Chinese pear)

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Wikipedia Abstract

Pyrus pyrifolia is a species of pear tree native to East Asia. The tree's edible fruit is known by many names, including: Asian pear, Chinese pear, Korean pear, Japanese pear, Taiwanese pear, and sand pear. Along with cultivars of P. × bretschneideri and P. ussuriensis, the fruit is also called the nashi pear. Cultivars derived from Pyrus pyrifolia are grown throughout East Asia, and in other countries such as India, Australia, New Zealand, and the United States (e.g., California). Traditionally in East Asia the tree's flowers are a popular symbol of early spring, and it is a common sight in gardens and the countryside.
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Attributes

Air Quality Improvement [1]  Low
Allergen Potential [1]  Medium-Low
Carbon Capture [1]  Low
Shade Percentage [1]  80 %
Temperature Reduction [1]  Medium-Low
Wind Reduction [1]  Medium-Low
Edible [2]  May be edible. See the Plants For A Future link below for details.
Flower Type [2]  Hermaphrodite
Leaf Type [2]  Deciduous
Lifespan [3]  Perennial
Pollinators [2]  Insects, Lepidoptera
Structure [2]  Tree
Height [2]  33 feet (10 m)
Width [1]  27 feet (8.1 m)
Hardiness Zone Minimum [1]  USDA Zone: 6 Low Temperature: -10 F° (-23.3 C°) → 0 F° (-17.8 C°)
Hardiness Zone Maximum [1]  USDA Zone: 8 Low Temperature: 10 F° (-12.2 C°) → 20 F° (-6.7 C°)
Water Use [1]  Moderate
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♦ 1i-Tree Species v. 4.0, developed by the USDA Forest Service's Northern Research Station and SUNY-ESF using the Horticopia, Inc. plant database.
♦ 2Plants For A Future licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License
♦ 3USDA Plants Database, U. S. Department of Agriculture
♦ 4Fruit-frugivore interactions in a Malagasy littoral forest: a community-wide approach of seed dispersal, An Bollen, UNIVERSITEIT ANTWERPEN 2003
♦ 5HOSTS - a Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants Gaden S. Robinson, Phillip R. Ackery, Ian J. Kitching, George W. Beccaloni AND Luis M. Hernández
♦ 6Norrbom, A.L. 2004. Fruit fly (Tephritidae) host plant database. Version Nov, 2004.
♦ 7Ben-Dov, Y., Miller, D.R. & Gibson, G.A.P. ScaleNet 4 November 2009
♦ 8The feeding ecology of Eidolon dupreanum (Pteropodidae) in eastern Madagascar, Monica Picot, Richard K. B. Jenkins, Olga Ramilijaona, Paul A. Racey and Stephanie M. Carrière, African Journal of Ecology, Volume 45, Issue 4, pages 645–650, December 2007
♦ 9Biological Records Centre Database of Insects and their Food Plants
♦ 10New Zealand Institute for Plant & Food Research Plant-SyNZ™ database
♦ 11Feeding ecology of the crowned sifaka (Propithecus coronatus) in a coastal dry forest in northwest Madagascar (SFUM, Antrema), Claire Pichon, Rivo Ramanamisata, Laurent Tarnaud, Françoise Bayart, Annette Hladik, Claude Marcel Hladik, Bruno Simmen, Lemur News Vol. 15, 2010, pp. 42-46
♦ 12Pteropus livingstonii, Stephanie J. Smith and David M. Leslie, Jr., MAMMALIAN SPECIES No. 792, pp. 1-5 (2006)
♦ 13Not rare, but threatened: the endemic Madagascar flying fox Pteropus rufus in a fragmented landscape, Richard K.B. Jenkins, Daudet Andriafidison, H. Julie Razafimanahaka, Andriamanana Rabearivelo, Noromampiandra Razafindrakoto, Zo Ratsimandresy, Rabe H. Andrianandrasana, Emilienne Razafimahatratra and Paul A. Racey, Oryx Vol 41 No 2 April 2007
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0