Scientific name: Pyrus calleryana
Pronunciation: PIE-rus kal-ler-ee-AY-nuh
Characteristics: Height: 30 to 40 feet
Spread: 30 to 40 feet
Light requirement: full sun
Flower color: white/cream/gray
Leaf type and persistence: deciduous
Landscape use: The major problem with the `Bradford' Callery Pear has been too many upright branches growing too closely together on the trunk. Prune the trees early in their life to space lateral branches along a central trunk. This is not easy and a skilled pruning crew is needed to build a stronger tree. Even following pruning by a skilled crew, trees often look misshappen with most of the lower foliage removed and the lower portions of the multiple trunks showing.
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