Sales of this Asian native and its best-known cultivar, the Bradford pear, have been banned in three states: Ohio, ...

Bark – Light brown/gray; at maturity, bark has horizontal lenticels. The flowering pear (Pyrus calleryana), also commonly called Bradford or Callery pear, is native to East and Southeast Asia and was ...

You can't miss the sight of those white-flowered trees each spring - or their unpleasant smell either. Here's why they seem to be everywhere.

The bark is gray on young trees and change to ... states along the east coast as far as the Carolinas and Tennessee. Callery Pear is a small tree that is native to eastern Asia.

Registration for the Callery Pear Buyback event is open from March 17 through April 17. To register, participants choose a native tree and submit a photo of the cut-down Callery pear tree. One free, ...