Pyrus

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Pyrus

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Description

Trees or shrubs, unarmed or with thorns, deciduous. Leaves simple. Flowers in few-flowered, simple racemes. Ovary inferior, carpels completely adnate with the hypanthium at base connate with each other, 5-celled, styles free. Fruit a pome, mesocarp fleshy and with stone cells, endocarp cartilaginous.

Distribution

Eurasia present

In Eurasia c. 12 species.

Notes

Pyrus communis L., the European pear, is not or hardly cultivated in Malesia. The Oriental pear, P. pyrifolia (Burm.) Nakai (syn. P. serotina Rehder) is cultivated in some places and is a promising product. See .