Plant: Kieffer - Pear Tree - FRUITING
Pear Tree · Pyrus communis 'Kieffer'
Size: 5 gal
Light
Bloom
Mature size
More about this plant
Kieffer is a rounded pear reaching about 15 to 20 feet tall and 10 to 20 feet wide, with white four to five petalled flowers that open late in the season. It is a heavy bearer of large golden yellow pomes with a crimson blush and white, crisp, coarse flesh that are good for preserves, canning or baking, ripening mid September to mid October. Glossy serrate leaves turn golden bronze in fall and the light gray bark is fissured and scaly over zig zag stems with conspicuous lenticels. Give it full sun of six or more hours a day; it is fire blight resistant and tolerates both drought and flooding, and at least two cultivars are needed for pollination.
- Full Sun
- Grows to 20 ft tall and 20 ft wide
- Blooms in spring
- Hardy in USDA zones 4-9
- Deciduous foliage
Plant description
Kieffer is a rounded pear reaching about 15 to 20 feet tall and 10 to 20 feet wide, with white four to five petalled flowers that open late in the season. It is a heavy bearer of large golden yellow pomes with a crimson blush and white, crisp, coarse flesh that are good for preserves, canning or baking, ripening mid September to mid October. Glossy serrate leaves turn golden bronze in fall and the light gray bark is fissured and scaly over zig zag stems with conspicuous lenticels. Give it full sun of six or more hours a day; it is fire blight resistant and tolerates both drought and flooding, and at least two cultivars are needed for pollination.
- Flowers
- White flowers with four to five petals, blooming late in the season.
- Fruit
- Large golden yellow pome with a crimson blush and white, crisp, coarse flesh, good for preserves, canning or baking, ripening mid September to mid October.
- Bark & stems
- Light gray bark that is fissured and scaly, with gray silver zig zag stems carrying conspicuous lenticels.
- Native range
- Europe to Northern Iraq
