Pyrus calleryana

Callery Pear at Yarralumla, ACT

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	Pyrus calleryana	27 Mar 2025	MichaelMulvaney
	Pyrus calleryana	26 Mar 2025	Mike

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Planted 2009. Now fruiting and suckering.

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abread111 wrote:

27 Mar 2025

Mike
Do you think these are suckers from the roots or seedlings?
If the forest trees are all the one variety, there must be some other planted variety (or the rootstock variety) flowering within pollinator range, to overcome the self incompatibility for fruit development.
No matter why, fruiting means invasive and a reason to argue for removal.

Mike wrote:

27 Mar 2025

I think the suckering is from damaged roots.

waltraud wrote:

29 Mar 2025

Mike and abread111
Can be proofed by lifting up; young suckers are still attached to parent plant. I don't think the managers of this "forest" mind probing; they want to keep the NorthKorean army pattern of squares and rows which would be ruined by suckering plants.

Mike wrote:

29 Mar 2025

I imagine the area is mowed, thus keeping the suckers at bay (and probably causing them too). Suckering is not a problem in nature reserves yet; all will be well if volunteers keep spotting and removing plants :-)

waltraud wrote:

29 Mar 2025

It comes down to capacity https://canberra.naturemapr.org/users/8081, just keeping on top of the 1000s of privets stretches parkcare capacity and some of us are getting old and tired.... the government pays for planting invasives and than generously offers to compete for grants to remove those that invade the reserves; this is not sustainable! Plus those spread by birds on public land other than nature reserves are protected under the Urban Forest Act.

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Location information

Coordinates 149.066396 -35.299632
Altitude 578.0m
Maps National Arboretum Forests
Places Yarralumla, ACT

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101 - 1,000 Abundance
26 Mar 2025 02:23 PM Recorded on
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Pyrus calleryana Scientific name
Callery Pear Common name
Not Sensitive
Exotic
Medium weed or pest
Up to 714.36m Recorded at altitude
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In flower
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Pyrus calleryana

Callery Pear at Yarralumla, ACT

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