Pyrus calleryana

Callery Pear at Mount Mugga Mugga

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Identification history

	Pyrus calleryana	14 May 2024	Tapirlord
	Pyrus sp.	13 May 2024	Mike

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No spines.

4 comments

Mike wrote:

14 May 2024

I recorded this to show the terminal buds, different from the spines on https://canberra.naturemapr.org/sightings/4571071. I thought this helped distinguishing between Manchurian pear and Callery pear, but perhaps it is just different cultivars. Forest 87 at the National Arboretum Pyrus calleryana 'Chanticleer' does not have spines (not that I looked closely).

Katy wrote:

21 Mar 2025

Hi

Same questions for this sapling too.

Do you think this was planted deliberately, or sown by seed dispersal or grown from a sucker?

What environment was it in?

Was it suckering?

It looks larger than the others...did it have fruit?

Thanks,
Kate

Mike wrote:

21 Mar 2025

Seed dispersal, woodland nature reserve, no suckers or fruit.

Katy wrote:

26 Mar 2025

Thank you.

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Location information

Coordinates 149.121732 -35.350320
Altitude 714.4m
Maps Mount Mugga Mugga
Places O'Malley, ACT

Sighting information

1 Abundance
13 May 2024 03:26 PM Recorded on
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Plants Other Trees Mike Canberra & Southern Tablelands NatureMapr

Additional information

False Planted
False In flower

Species information

Pyrus calleryana Scientific name
Callery Pear Common name
Not Sensitive
Exotic
Medium weed or pest
Up to 714.36m Recorded at altitude
Machine learning
In flower
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Australian Capital Territory

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