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Pyrus sicanorum, the Pero dei Monti Sicano, is a species of pear in the rose family Rosaceae, that is native to central western Sicily. It is, together with P. ciancioi, P. pedrottiana, P. vallis-demonis and P. castribonensis, one of five pear species endemic to the island, and was described in 2006.
Pyrus sicanorum occurs in the Sicani Mountains of central-western Sicily, where it has been identified between Filaga and Prizzi (Palermo Province), near Monte delle Rose (Bivona, Agrigento Province) and in the Rifesi Woods, close to Palazzo Adriano and Burgio. The species grows in shrublands and mesophilic downy oak woodland margins on carbonate bedrock between 750 and 1300 m.a.s. together with wild asparagus (Asparagus acutifolius), common hawthorn (Crataegus monogyna), Albanian spurge (Euphorbia characias), Etruscan honeysuckle (Lonicera etrusca), coral peony (Paeonia mascula subsp. russoi), blackthorn (Prunus spinosa), dog rose (Rosa canina), evergreen rose (R. sempervirens), wild madder (Rubia peregrina), elmleaf blackberry (Rubus ulmifolius), butcher's broom (Ruscus aculeatus), common bindweed (Smilax aspera), milkwort (Polygala preslii) and bellevalia (Bellevalia dubia).
Pyrus armeniacifolia · Rose Family · Birch Leaf Pear · Pyrus boissieriana · Iberian Pear · Chinese White Pear · Callery Pear · Pyrus ciancioi · European Pear · Plymouth Pear · Oleaster Leafed Pear · Gergeranian Pear
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Pyrus sicanorum 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.
