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NAME: Callery Pear

SPECIES / FAMILY:  Pyrus Calleryana / Rosaceae

OTHER COMMON NAME(S):  Bradford pear

CONDITIONS: sun-partial shade
 

PARTS:

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TASTE

RAW/COOK

SEASON

All

  

 

 

 

Shoots

 

 

 

 

Leaves

        

Stalk/Stem

 

 

 

 

Buds

        

Flowers

 

 

 

 

Fruits

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tart/sour

 RAW/DRY/COOK

Sep-Oct

Pods

  

 

    

Seeds

 

 

 

 

Nuts

 

 

 

 

Roots

 

 

 

 

Bark

 

 

 

 

 

PORTION: small-medium

 

COMMENT: The wild origin species of the cultivar, Bradford Pear. Fruit tastes like a pear, although somewhat tart and dry. Best used after it has turned brown and been exposed to a frost, since this will soften and sweeten the flesh.(1)

 

CAUTION:  https://shuncy.com/article/callery-pear-fruit-edible - cautions against eating large amounts of callery pears and their seeds, thus it might be best to cook the fruit and strain it through a sieve.

 

NUTRITION/MEDICINAL:  Callery pear and the Keto Diet, lots of nutritional info - https://www.castironketo.net/friendly/plants/fruits/pomes/callery-pear

 

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OTHER USES: Rootstock;  Wood. This species is widely used as a rootstock, especially for cultivars of Pyrus pyrifolia. It is said to induce earlier bearing. The wood of this species is hard and close-grained, and is sometimes used for making furniture and stools.(1) Pear wood (of any species) is among the finest-textured of all fruitwoods. It is prized for making woodwind instruments, and pear veneer is used in fine furniture. Pear wood is also among those preferred for preparing woodcuts for printing, either end-grained for small works or side-grained for larger.(2)

 

Callery pear has been used as rootstock for grafting such pear cultivars as Comice, Bosc, or Seckel, and especially for Nashi.

 

SOURCE LINKS (may include nutritional and medicinal info, plus other uses):

  1. https://pfaf.org/user/Plant.aspx?LatinName=Pyrus+calleryana
  2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyrus_calleryana
  3. https://www.healthbenefitstimes.com/callery-pear
  4. http://southernforager.blogspot.com/2013/11/bradford-pear-jelly.html
  5. https://shuncy.com/article/callery-pear-fruit-edible

VIDEOS:

  1. Funny and factual video!  https://www.facebook.com/blackforager/videos/when-i-was-six-my-family-moved-into-a-beautiful-old-house-in-a-neighborhood-full/694979354737606/
  2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1XGzXGRI7Ps