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Jul 20, 2014 5:57 PM CST
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Name: Dave Whitinger
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Does anyone know what this is? When it bloomed in the spring it looked just like a pear or plum blossom (unfortunately I didn't get a photo). It's growing out in a little hill just up from our bottomland.

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Jul 20, 2014 7:34 PM CST

Might be a persimmon?
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Jul 21, 2014 4:26 AM CST
Name: Janet Super Sleuth
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It resembles Pyrus calleryana, some leaves look a little different but on the Forestry Images site the leaf venation is very similar.

http://www.forestryimages.org/...

http://dendro.cnre.vt.edu/dend...
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Jul 21, 2014 7:00 AM CST
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Name: Dave Whitinger
Southlake, Texas (Zone 8a)
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Wow, you're right Janet. I really wasn't expecting this to be Callery Pear but I'm certain that it is. This is an introduced and invasive species that is found in much of the south, including Texas. I'm going to mow it down next time I'm out there with my shredder. Thanks for the ID. Thumbs up

More reading:

http://www.nps.gov/plants/alie...
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Jul 21, 2014 7:11 AM CST
Name: Janet Super Sleuth
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I tip my hat to you. Thumbs up

The different genotypes will explain leaf variations!

if the plant produces shoots from the rootstock (which it often does), then these shoots and the graft can pollinate one another. Thus, the Bradford pear cultivar is one of several cultivars (varieties) of Callery pear capable of spreading and being invasive.


Once more a story of an invasive species due to a wish to control a disease, or as has often happened, another invasive creature.
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