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Pyrus cordata
Pyrus cordata, the Plymouth pear (English name) or heart-leaved pear (European name), is a rare wild species of pear belonging to the family Rosaceae. It gets its scientific name cordata and French names Poirier à feuilles en cœur, Poirier à feuilles cordées from the shape of its leaves. The English name Plymouth pear is after the city of Plymouth in Devon, where it was originally found in 1870 The Plymouth pear was one of the British trees to be funded under English Natures Species Recovery Programme.
It is a small tree, that grows in hedgerows or at the edge of woods.
The Plymouth pear has an Atlantic distribution and is found in Western Europe in France (notably in Brittany), Spain (notably in Galicia), Portugal and with a small presence in the United Kingdom (in Devon and Cornwall) where it is now believed to be an archaeophyte.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Pyrus cordata by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.
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.
