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ORIGINAL: early in
ORIGINAL: pigiron
Buckmaster, what you have there is a pear tree my friend. I've grown them, sold them, and chopped many up up due to their weak bark and short life span. That close-up of the fruit and the ovalleaf structure is a dead ringer. I've seen many in the semi-wild state with tremendous thorns. Damn things will go right through one of your fingers if your not careful cutting them up.
You need to look into this more closely. Callery pear and bradford pears do not have thorns. I've trimmed and taken down probably hundreds of them over 30 years doing tree work. Believe me, they don't have thorns. They grow them as street trees all over my region. They are weak tree's that growtoo quickly. Like I say, look in to it more and then shoot me a PM.
Callery pear has escaped from cultivation in 25 states and is reported as new to California, Michigan, Missouri, New Jersey, and West Virginia.
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Open Grown Wild Callery Pear
[/align]Studies suggest that the species is rapidly becoming invasive in much of its horticultural range in the eastern United States. Some of the escaped trees appear to be of hybrid origin, perhaps between callery pear and P. betulifolia or P. bretschneideri. Gallery pear often produces thorny thickets as it escapes into marginal and disturbed areas, and appears to be reproducing readily in the wild.
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[/align]It is the wild version of callery Early-in.
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[/align]I don't mean to keep going back and forth but.......I too am positive.
The wild version is very common in overgrown lots and fields. As a wintertime business when I was young, I cut the branches, put them in bundles,and wouldforce the buds to near bloom. There was a high demand for them in the New York flower district on 27th street.
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Then what you are talking about is some kind of a hybrid, because the common callery pear has no thorns. I'm not BSing when I tell you I've worked on hundreds of these tree's and never seen thorns on any of them. This tree is closely related to the bradford pear.I even went as far as to look in my Guide to Trees of North America, and it mentions nothing of these trees having thorns. Like I say, you've got to be talking about a hybrid/cross breedof some sort.