A close look at Bradford pear tree leaves and flowers. Callery pear trees are medium-sized trees that reach up to 60 feet tall. Their bark is a muted, grayish brown that splits into scales with age.

The most commonly used cultivar is Bradford. Other common cultivars include Cleveland Select, Autumn Blaze, Chanticleer and Whitehouse. The Callery pear tree is an ornamental species native to ...

It could be a Bradford Pear tree. Many people find the smell that ... as well as member of the Massachusetts Invasive Species Advisory Group. Local fauna has been slow to develop a taste for ...

Bradford pear trees are an invasive species, and their beauty is one of ... If so, you may have stumbled across a big, beautiful, white-flowered tree. Then, when you got a little closer, you ...

While it can produce stunning blooms, this tree’s odor has been compared to dead fish, vomit, and urine, to name just a few ...

Bradford pear trees are a variety of the callery pear ... The Extension also recommends having "zero tolerance" for the tree species, and in addition to not planting them, Oklahomans should ...

state forestry officials have launched a program that provides landowners with a free replacement tree in exchange for cutting down a Bradford pear. The now-ubiquitous species was selectively bred ...

For me, this time of the year is marked not only by the returning presence of pollen but by one of my least favorite plants: the Bradford pear tree. As an N.C. native, I have a long history with ...

Remove Invasives Partnership (RIP) and the Joint Task Force on Invasives put a bounty on invasive Bradford pear trees this ...