Pyrus betulaefolia

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Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture

Pyrus betulaefolia, Bunge. Fig. 3281. Tree, to 20 ft., without thorns, the buds and branchlets gray-tomentose, the head rather narrow, the foliage pale and the fls. rather small: lvs. ovate-acuminate or rhombic-ovate-acuminate, cuneate at base, long-stalked, sharp-serrate, becoming shining green above, pale tomentose or glabrous beneath: fls. white, 2/3in. across, the styles and cells of ovary 2: fr. nearly globular, size of a pea, brown and dotted, the calyx falling. China. Hardy in New England and Canada. H.H. 1879, pp. 318, 319. G.F. 7:225 (reduced in Fig. 3281). A.F. 13: 1396. Gng. 6:309.—A worthy plant for ornament, bearing a profusion of fls. in advance of the lvs. or at the time of the expanding of the lvs. It has been used as a stock for some of the pomological pears. It is subject to pear-blight.


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