Pear and Apple
By Ann MacDonald
Pear and Apple (Pyrus) - Beautiful flowering trees and bushes of which there is now a bewildering number, since botanists have classed all Apples, Pears, and their allies under the one family.
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name for a fruit tree of the genus Pyrus of the family Rosaceae ( family) and for its fruit, a pome. The common pear (P. communis) is one of the earliest cultivated of fruit trees, both in its native W Asia and in Europe.
Prickly-pear
Opuntia humifusa
Many people are surprised to learn that Connecticut has cacti, but the prickly pear is found in all eastern states except for Maine, Vermont, and New Hampshire.
Prickly Pear - Growing the Hardy Cactus Opuntia compressa - Eastern Prickly Pear
By Marie Iannotti, About.com Guide
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Pruning Pear Trees:
Like other plants, pruning established trees is healthy for them. It results in a bigger crop. Prune pear trees annually in the early spring, before the new year's growth begins.
Pear trees can reach a height of 25 feet or more and grow in any fertile, well-drained soil, in full sun. They have strong vertical branches and require little pruning. The fruit grows on long-lived spurs and is spherical to typically pear-shaped.
Pear trees naturally develop narrow angled, upright branches. To train properly angled scaffold branches, either weight the branches, tie branches to pegs in the ground or brace the branches apart with spacer sticks.
Pruning Bearing Trees ...
Tiger-pear
Scientific Name: Opuntia aurantiaca Lindl.
Synonym: Cactus aurantiaca, Opuntia extensa
Family: Cactaceae ...
The prickly pear cactus is a widely used and versatile cactus. It can be used in many different ways such as foods, crops, etc.. In many places the prickly pear is grown as a crop, but in others they are just grown in the wild.
The Ornamental Pear is a deciduous narrow conical tree growing broader with age, thornless and produces no edible fruit. The Bradford Pear grows in a classic "lollipop fashion" making it a popular choice for some landscape plantings.
Genus Pyrus (Pear)
Pyrus 'Nijiseiki' Photo/Illustration: Delilah Smittle
PY-rus Common Name: Pear ...
Plains Prickly-pear Cactus
Opuntia polyacantha Haw.
Family: Cactaceae, Cactus
Genus: Opuntia ...
The edible prickly pear and the infamous cholla are two distinct members of this diverse group of desert plants. They represent, respectively, the two halves of this genus -- plants with flat, broad joints, and those with cylindrical ones.
I believe it a prickly pear cactus (or at least it looks like one). I keep it in a window that has a northern exposure (the only window I have in my office) but there is large overhang right above my window.
EVERGREEN PEAR. Taiwan, China
ROSACEAE (Rose family)
This small tree, with very attractive glossy 3-inch leaves, broadly oval and kawakamii with a point, puts on a good display of white blossom in spring, but bears Rosaceae only minute pears.
As an ornamental the prickly pear is an interesting specimen plant. Depending on the selection, it can grow from 2- to 8-feet tall. Hybrids are hardy statewide in Arkansas if they are given full sun and good drainage.
Common Name: Prickly Pear Cactus
Latin Name: Opuntia humifusa
Habitat: Sandy areas, open rocky sites
Blooms: Late spring, summer ...
Pear Tomato
A variety of the tomato that is similar in texture to cherry tomatoes but milder in flavor and smaller in size with a shape like a pear.
PEAR - Pyrus communis
A Naturalist in Western China. By Ernest H. Wilson. 1976 YB, p 94
Bare Root Time Again. By Jim Neitzel. 1979 #1, pp 18-21
Deciduous Fruit Varieties. By Jim Neitzel. 1980 YB, pp 20-40 ...
[edit] Pear Rootstocks
Pears are usually grafted onto quince rootstocks, which produce small to medium sized trees. Some varieties however are not compatible with quince, and these require double working.
common pear Rosaceae Pyrus communis L. symbol: PYCO
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Prickly pear, Indian fig
Opuntia ficus-indica
Fruits and Vegetables, Cacti and Succulents ...
Prickly Pear Cactus. . In the Cactaceae or cactus family. Common, native.
Pride of India (Melia azederach). From South Asia. Introduced. A majestic tree in the landscape. The bark, flowers and foliage are nice.
Pear Varieties
by National Gardening Association Editors
The extensive selection of high-quality pear varieties available that can't be found in grocery stores make pear trees well worth growing by home gardeners.
Pear
PI-rus
About 30 species of deciduous trees and shrubs, occasionally terminating in a thorn. Leaves alternate, simple, usually serrate, sometimes lobed.
Sand pear blossoms appear in early spring followed closely by red-tinged young leaves. Click to download a large version (800x600).
Balsam-pear
Momordica charantia
Introduced climbing vine. Flowers: 1 1/4" (3 cm), cup-like, yellow, with 5 petal lobes. Leaves: deeply palmately 5- to 7-lobed, toothed, often hairy.
Apple, Pear and Plum Jam
8 lb. of each fruit, 1/2, pint of cider, 1/4 oz. of powdered cloves (no sugar is required).
Prickly pear cactus are found in all of the deserts of the American Southwest, with different species having adapted to different locale and elevation ranges. Most require course, well-drained soil in dry, rocky flats or slopes.
Prickly Pear cactus (genus Opuntia)
Classification of Cacti:
Kingdom - Plantae (plants)
Phylum - Tracheophyta (vascular plants)
Division - Magnoliophyta = Anthophyta] (angioperms)
Class - Dicotyledonae = Magnoliopsida (dicots) ...
- Ornamental pear (such as Pyrus calleryana 'Chanticleer'),
Zone 5
- Upright hornbeam (Carpinus betulus 'Fastigiata'), Zone 4
- Maple (such as Acer rubrum 'Bowhall'), Zone 3
- Gingko (such as Ginkgo biloba 'Fastigiata' or 'Princeton Sentry'), Zone 4 ...
FRUIT: Somewhat pear shaped tapering toward the stem, 1"-2" long with a thin husk only partly splitting when ripe. Nuts brownish white, thick-shelled, kernels often taste bitter.
Festive Prickly Pear Fruit
Introduce gardening friends and holiday guests to the prickly pear fruit, a native edible ornamental for gardens and wild landscapes.
Plants with Berries that Look Like Blackberries ...
a 1" to 3" long, pear-shaped dehiscent capsule
smooth husks are light brown with nuts inside
in the northeastern United States, fruit set is rare due to an insufficiently long growing season
Bark ...
Fruit: An oval or pear-shaped berry, 3-10 cm (1-4 in) long, yellow at maturity; with yellow or dark pink flesh some-what dull in taste; seeds numerous.
balsam-pear; bitter gourd Momordica charantia
bamboo orchid Arundina graminifolia
Banana poka Passiflora mollissima
Barbados lily Hippeastrum puniceum
barbwire Russian thistle Salsola paulsenii
barnyard grass Echinochloa crus-galli ...
Adult aphids are tiny-no more than about 1/8 inch long-pear-shaped and equipped with long antennae. Often called plant lice, they come in several colors: green, yellow, red, brown, gray and black.
menziesii Coast Douglasfir Pyracantha coccinea Scarlet Firethorn Pyracantha x 'Mohave' Mohave Firethorn Pyrus calleryana 'Aristocrat' Aristocrat Pear Pyrus calleryana 'Bradford' Bradford Pear Pyrus calleryana 'Capital' Capital Pear Botanical Name ...
The receptacle bearing the calyx is sometimes united to the pistil, and enlarges so as to form a part of the fruit, as in the apple, pear, &c. In these fruits the withered calyx is seen at the apex.
Poncirus trifoliata is used as a dwarfing under-stock for Citrus (orange); Pyrus (pear) is grafted on Cydonia (quince) as a dwarfing under-stock; a number of Cotoneaster species have been grafted to Pyrus (pear) arid Crataegus (hawthorn).
Bladders small, deflated, pear-shaped pouches; very small (1mm-2mm); 1-5 per leaf.
Pick-a-back Plant, Pigmy Rush, Pignut, Pill Sedge, Pineapple Mayweed, Pink Oxalis, Pink Purslane, Pink Water Speedwell, Pipewort, Pirri-pirri Bur, Pirri-pirri Bur, Pittosporum, Plicate Sweet-grass, Ploughman's Spikenard, Plymouth Pear, ...
subhirtella Yoshino Cherry Prunus X yedoensis Aristocrat Callery Pear Pyrus callergana 'Aristocrat' Bradford Callery Pear P. calleryana 'Bradford' Chanticleer Callery Pear P.
The fruit may reach 10cm (4in) or more in length and have been described as resembling a large pear, although they are not edible.
Because of the resemblance of the basal leaves of this genus to the leaves of a Pear Tree, Linnaeus gave it the name "Pyrola", a diminutive of "Pyrus", the Pear Tree. The species, P.
Dainty double pure white pear-shaped flowers with green-tipped inner petals in January and February and narrow grey-green leaves. These delightful double snowdrops are ideal for naturalising in the border under deciduous trees and shrubs.
The species name means "pear-shaped." The genus name translates "Wolf" (Lyco) & "burst of wind" (perdon), so that Nancy Smith Weber's mushroom field guide says it means, "Wind of the Wolf.
I guess we've all driven through the country side, and seen the mounds of prickly pear cactus adorning dilapidated mobile homes, so often used in those tastefully painted tractor tires.
Fire blight of pear and apple, bacterial leaf spot and bacterial canker of peach and plum are three of the more frequently observed diseases in the home garden.
Prickly-Pear Cactus (Opuntia humifusa) - close view of fruits © Daniel Reed Note the tiny spines.
Opuntia polyacantha. Prickly Pear Cactus with a shield bug. Pony, Montana.
Opuntia bigelovii. Teddy Bear Cholla. Sonora Desert Museum. Tuscon, Arizona.
Opuntia bigelovii. Teddy Bear Cholla. Joshua Tree National Park, California.
'Burgundy Snow' is a new cultivar of Callery Pear that features red anthers (upon close inspection of the flowers), but it has the liability of relatively large (1 inch diameter) fruits that drop in late Autumn, ...
Lycopersicon x 'Yellow Pear' Tomato, Cherry Yellow Pear (American Heirloom, Early 1900's)
annual, easy care
created by gardengirl
zones: 1a thru 11a ...
Epidendrum alatum is an epiphytic orchid native to Mexico and Central America. The pear-shaped pseudobulbs can reach up to 5 inches (12.5 cm) long with 2-3 leathery leaves to 15 inches (37.5 cm) long.
Pyrus kawakamii
Evergreen pear
Rosaceae Family
Compiled by the Master Gardeners
of the University of Arizona Pima County Cooperative Extension.
Apple and pear pyramids on dwarfing rootstocks are excellent for the small garden. Although there are no dwarfing rootstocks for plums, pyramid-training is gaining in popularity for keeping garden plum trees within bounds.
1-2" yellow fruit taste like an orange flavored pear. A very tropical-looking evergreen tree growing to 15-25' tall.
Light: Full to partial sun
Size: 20'H x 12'W ...
Year Round Container Gardening
How to Grow Pear Trees From Seeds
How to Grow Ginseng at Home
How to Grow a New Rose Bush From a Cutting ...
Persea are evergreen shrubs and trees with pear-shaped fruits with smooth edible flesh.
Plant Types:
Fruit, Perennial, Tree ...
 See also: Green, May, Fruits, Apple, Orange
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