They might look pretty, but Callery pear trees are an invasive species in the US and have the potential to cause chaos in the ...

Garth Aubin of Aubin Nurseries says the Beedle pear is sweet and juicy and lacks the bitter tasting outer skin of other ...

the Bradford pear tree easily cross-pollinates with other pear tree types. It’s so invasive it crowds out other native plants and provides little to no food for insects, according to The Spruce.

Steve Nix is a member of the Society of American Foresters and a former forest resources analyst for the state of Alabama. The "Chanticleer" Callery Pear was selected as the "Urban Tree of the ...

they readily cross-pollinate with other varieties of pear. This results in fruit production in subsequent generations of trees that are fertile. Beyond their overabundance and displacement of ...

ODNR says Callery pear trees have numerous cultivated varieties that can cross-pollinate with each other and produce viable fruit. The most commonly used cultivar is Bradford. Other common ...

Bradford pear trees give off an unpleasant odor ... It is tolerant to a range of soil types and moisture types, and it grows quickly, displacing other species. Invasive species are typically ...

The Callery pear tree is starting to bloom across the state ... "That's when plant readers developed other types of pears that had a central leader. So when people started to plant all these ...

Callery pear trees – which come in multiple varieties including “Bradford” pear, “Autumn Blaze” and “Cleveland Select” – typically begin to bloom in the state in late March to ...

Just like sweet-smelling trees, the Bradford pear instead relies on attracting insects associated with decay. "The smell is created by sulfur compounds, which are also found in certain types of ...

ODNR says Callery pear trees have numerous cultivated varieties that can cross-pollinate with each other and produce viable fruit. The most commonly used cultivar is Bradford. Other common ...