My mystery tree has fruit... help again??
07-15-2008 | 07:21 PM
#11
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RE: My mystery tree has fruit... help again??
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.
07-15-2008 | 07:24 PM
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RE: My mystery tree has fruit... help again??
ORIGINAL: live2Draw
are they sticky, the fruits that is?
kinda looks like a paw paw
are they sticky, the fruits that is?
kinda looks like a paw paw
07-15-2008 | 07:27 PM
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RE: My mystery tree has fruit... help again??
that is not persimmons.looks like minature pears to me.Persimmons trees need more than a single tree to germinate and produce fruit,thats why when you find one there is another one close by.
07-15-2008 | 07:36 PM
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RE: My mystery tree has fruit... help again??
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.
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.
07-15-2008 | 07:38 PM
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RE: My mystery tree has fruit... help again??
ORIGINAL: Snood Slapper
Definitely not a paw paw. We have them in the wild here, plus I grow them. Thier fruit is oblong and the leaves are much larger.
ORIGINAL: live2Draware they sticky, the fruits that is?kinda looks like a paw paw
07-15-2008 | 07:50 PM
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RE: My mystery tree has fruit... help again??
ORIGINAL: live2Draw
the ones I used to have in my backyard were round. But still deff paw paw, yummy bannana tasty. They were planted there though, so they might have been some freaks cause I dont think they belong in NE ohio.
ORIGINAL: Snood Slapper
Definitely not a paw paw. We have them in the wild here, plus I grow them. Thier fruit is oblong and the leaves are much larger.
ORIGINAL: live2Draware they sticky, the fruits that is?kinda looks like a paw paw
07-15-2008 | 08:04 PM
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RE: My mystery tree has fruit... help again??
ORIGINAL: early in
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.
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.
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.
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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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. [/align][/align]
07-15-2008 | 08:26 PM
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From: Mont County, Pa
RE: My mystery tree has fruit... help again??
ORIGINAL: pigiron
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]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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ORIGINAL: early in
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.
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.
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.
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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Next[/ol]Gallery Index
Image 5 of 8
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View Full-Size
[/align]Steve Nix
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. [/align][/align]
