#1863 most planted
Pyrus pyraster
European wild pear · also Wild pear
16
trees mapped
0.00%
of all named trees
2
cities
3.1 in
median trunk (8 cm, 9 measured)
13 yr
median age (56% have a planting date)
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Pyrus pyraster, also known as European wild pear, is considered an ancestor of the cultivated European pear. It is a temperate tree that can live for 100 to 150 years. Distinguishing it from common pears can be challenging.
Where it grows
Trees in each city's inventory, with the share of that city's named trees this species accounts for.
- 110.00%13 yr3.1 in
- 50.00%——
Traits
- Lifespan
- 100–150 years
Trunk diameters across every city: median 3.1 in, mean 3.5 in, 90th percentile 4.4 in. Measured at breast height, as published by each inventory.
Native range
Terrestrial ecoregions where this species is native. Trees in the dataset mostly stand well outside it.
Temperate Broadleaf & Mixed Forests
- Baltic mixed forests
- Central European mixed forests
- East European forest steppe
- Eastern Anatolian deciduous forests
- Western European broadleaf forests
Mediterranean Forests, Woodlands & Scrub
- Aegean and Western Turkey sclerophyllous and mixed forests
Other Pyrus in the catalogue
13 of the top 2,000 species are in this genus.
