Full Sun
Easy care
Moderate watering
Frost Hardy
6a
USDA zone
-23°C
Minimum temperature
Expected size
Height | Spread | |
|---|---|---|
17m | Max | |
8m | Min | 5m |
Fruiting
spring
summer
autumn
winter
Harvest pears when they are mature but still hard. Ripen the pears at room temperature for the best quality. Some pears need chilling to ripen fully like Forelle and Packham's Triumph.
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Common Pear Overview
The pear is a medium-sized tree or shrub, reaching 10–17 m tall, often with a tall, narrow crown. The alternate leaves are simple, glossy green on some species, and densely silvery-hairy in some others. The leaf shape varies from broad oval to narrow lance-shaped. Most pears are deciduous, but one or two species in southeast Asia are evergreen. Most are cold-hardy, withstanding temperatures between −25 °C and −40 °C in winter, except for the evergreen species, which only tolerate temperatures down to about −15 °C. The flowers are white, rarely tinted yellow or pink, and have five petals. The pear fruit is a pome, in cultivated forms they grow up to 18 cm long and 8 cm broad; the shape varies in most species from oblate or globose, to the classic pyriform 'pear-shape' of the European pear.
Common problems with Common Pear
Fire blight, Pear psylla, Aphids, Mites, Powdery mildew. False codling moth and red spider mites may attack and destroy fruit and leaves
How to propagate Common Pear
Division
Seed
Grafting
Grafting.
Special features of Common Pear
Attracts useful insects
Other uses of Common Pear
Their habit, flowers and edible fruits (pears). Suitable for coastal conditions.
