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Author Garden: What kind of tree? (2) Sami Super Gardener Member # 2803 posted                       Here's another: * * * * Talentless but connected. Plants: 530 | From: Texas | Registered: Jun 2004  |  Seeded: 24.116.97.245 obywan59 Garden Pro! Member # 2222 posted                       Bradford pear. Nice white blooms in early spring and burgundy fall color. * * * * Terry May the force be with you Plants: 1370 | From: Copper Hill, Virginia | Registered: Apr 2004  |  Seeded: 65.134.21.206 Sami Super Gardener Member # 2803 posted                       Really? This one was here when I moved in and isn't shaped nearly as pretty as the one I planted. * * * * Talentless but connected. Plants: 530 | From: Texas | Registered: Jun 2004  |  Seeded: 24.116.97.245 obywan59 Garden Pro! Member # 2222 posted                       OK, it technically might not be a Bradford. There are numerous forms of Pyrus calleryana. Aristocrat, Redspire, Whitehouse, Capital, etc. This one seems to be more horizontal branching and so is more likely to be Aristocrat. * * * * Terry May the force be with you Plants: 1370 | From: Copper Hill, Virginia | Registered: Apr 2004  |  Seeded: 65.134.155.172 Sami Super Gardener Member # 2803 posted                       OK, thanks. I don't know anything about the different variations. (I barely know more than it's a tree, lol). I took a couple more pictures & compared the leaves & berries. The leaves look similar to my Bradford and they have similar berries...but they have thorns on the branches. Here's a couple of pics. Do the Aristicrats have these thorns? If so, that's what it is. * * * * Talentless but connected. Plants: 530 | From: Texas | Registered: Jun 2004  |  Seeded: 24.116.97.245 obywan59 Garden Pro! Member # 2222 posted                       No, Aristocrat doesn't have thorns. The variety Cleveland and others have thorns, buy I'm wondering if perhaps this was originally a Bradford that died out and the the rootstock took over. This tree doesn't really have a good form, so it may not be one of the cultivars, but is actually the original species Pyrus calleryana. * * * * Terry May the force be with you Plants: 1370 | From: Copper Hill, Virginia | Registered: Apr 2004  |  Seeded: 65.130.87.2 Sami Super Gardener Member # 2803 posted                       What happens when the rootstock takes over? What does that mean? I read about species Pyrus calleryana...seems that some do have thorns. I wonder how I can find out about these trees. I think I'm going to cut a lot of the bottom limbs off so that they are really high & my husband doesn't get mauled by it when he mows, lol. * * * * Talentless but connected. Plants: 530 | From: Texas | Registered: Jun 2004  |  Seeded: 24.116.97.245 Sami Super Gardener Member # 2803 posted                       What happens when the rootstock takes over? What does that mean? I read about species Pyrus calleryana...seems that some do have thorns. I wonder how I can find out about these trees. I think I'm going to cut a lot of the bottom limbs off so that they are really high & my husband doesn't get mauled by it when he mows, lol. * * * * Talentless but connected. Plants: 530 | From: Texas | Registered: Jun 2004  |  Seeded: 24.116.97.245

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