"Downsides? Everything." Homeowner met with urgent warnings after sharing photo of tree in their yard: 'Get rid of it' first appeared on The Cool Down.

Over the years, Callery pear (Pyrus calleryana) has become one of the most widely planted ornamental trees in the US. But over that time, it has also become abundantly clear that it is not the ...

The flowering pear tree is self-incompatible, which means that it cannot self-pollinate to produce ... The beginning of a new invasive plant: A history of the ornamental callery pear in the United ...

As a group they are often referred to as ornamental pears, Callery pear, or are simply lumped into ... I also learned that one of my points about this tree missed the mark with some.

Fire blight infects ornamental fruit trees such as this callery pear, a popular landscape tree. Symptoms include cankers on branches, wilted shoots and blacked leaves, which give trees a “scorched” ...