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Pyrus bretschneideri
Also called White Pear, Ya Pear
A pear tree from northern China, grown mainly for its juicy, white to light yellow fruit that is shaped like a European pear. It is an interspecific hybrid (Pyrus × bretschneideri) and is often grouped with the Asian pears, the key to growing it being a cold winter for fruiting plus a second compatible pear for pollination.
Pyrus × bretschneideri (or Pyrus bretschneideri), the ya pear or pearple or Chinese white pear (Chinese: 白梨; pinyin: báilí), is an interspecific hybrid species of pear native to North China, where it is widely grown for its edible fruit.
Recent molecular genetic evidence confirms some relationship to the Siberian pear (Pyrus ussuriensis), but it can also be classified as a subspecies of the Chinese pear Pyrus pyrifolia.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Pyrus × bretschneideri by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
