
Callery Pear
- Botanical Name
- Pyrus calleryana
- Min Zone
- 5
- Max Zone
- 8
- Height
- 30 to 50 feet
- Width
- 20 to 35 feet
- Flowers
- April to May: white, before leaves emerge, malodorous
- Fruit
- Round, tan pome covered in russet dots
- Fall Color
- Scarlet and purple, late in the season
- Light
- Full sun
- Soil
- Adaptable
- Planting & Care
- Transplant as balled and burlap in spring
- Tolerant of hot and dry conditions
- Problems
- Splitting, fireblight, fall/winter damage
- Varieties
- Autumn Blaze - most cold hardy (Zone 4), reddish-purple in fall, fireblight susceptible
- Chanticleer - narrow pyramid shape, 35 by 15 feet, heavy flowering, good fall color
- Jaczam & Jilzam - dwarf, 20 feet, rounded form
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