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Plant: Ayers Pear Tree
Pear Tree · Pyrus communis 'Ayers'
Size: 5 gal
Light
Bloom
Mature size
More about this plant
Ayers is a European pear grown for its fruit, an erect and spreading deciduous tree with showy white flowers borne in spring clusters with all parts in fives. Glossy, smooth, serrate leaves turn gold in fall, and the large edible pome ripens from summer into fall. It wants full sun of six or more hours a day and a well drained neutral clay, loam or sandy soil, and is a high maintenance tree with frequent disease and insect problems, fire blight chief among them. The flowers draw bees, butterflies and other pollinators and the fruit draws songbirds, and it suits an edible garden, an English garden or a lawn specimen.
- Full Sun
- Grows to 35 ft tall and 25 ft wide
- Blooms in spring
- Hardy in USDA zones 4-8
- Deciduous foliage
Plant description
Ayers is a European pear grown for its fruit, an erect and spreading deciduous tree with showy white flowers borne in spring clusters with all parts in fives. Glossy, smooth, serrate leaves turn gold in fall, and the large edible pome ripens from summer into fall. It wants full sun of six or more hours a day and a well drained neutral clay, loam or sandy soil, and is a high maintenance tree with frequent disease and insect problems, fire blight chief among them. The flowers draw bees, butterflies and other pollinators and the fruit draws songbirds, and it suits an edible garden, an English garden or a lawn specimen.
- Flowers
- White flowers with all parts in fives, borne in clusters in spring.
- Foliage
- Green, oval, alternate leaves 1 to 4 inches long with serrated edges that turn yellow in fall.
- Fruit
- Variable fruit sizes, shapes and colors; teardrop shapes are the most familiar form.
- Bark & stems
- The bark is smooth and gray with lenticels, becoming blocky or furrowed with age.
- Native range
- Europe to Northern Iraq
