Pyrus calleryanaDecne.

Callery pear

WFO wfo-0001014302 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h

Pyrus calleryana, photographed by Nonbinary-Naturalist
fig. a Nonbinary-Naturalist, CC0 1.0 / 2022-05-17 / obs. 198402473
Pyrus calleryana, photographed by Navin Sasikumar
fig. b Navin Sasikumar, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 194283566
Pyrus calleryana, photographed by Bonnie Semmling
fig. c Bonnie Semmling, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 198020944
Pyrus calleryana, photographed by Mitch Van Dyke
fig. d Mitch Van Dyke, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 189758035
Pyrus calleryana, photographed by Mark Apgar
fig. e Mark Apgar, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 186482869
Pyrus calleryana, photographed by Bonnie Semmling
fig. f Bonnie Semmling, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 188099047
Pyrus calleryana, photographed by Summit Metro Parks
fig. g Summit Metro Parks, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 189530702
Pyrus calleryana, photographed by Yann Kemper
fig. h Yann Kemper, CC0 1.0 / obs. 187772694

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Confused withby our own model

These are not lookalikes we guessed at. Each one is a species our identification model genuinely mistook for this plant, and how many times. The error rate is published.

Flowering n = 2,311 observations

Peak flowering in Apr, from 2,311 community-annotated observations worldwide. This is a global aggregate, not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres, and citizen-science records cluster near cities, at weekends, and in spring. Where a species has fewer than 30 annotated records we do not draw this chart at all.

Also published as 14 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Pyrus calleryana f. calleryana
  • Pyrus calleryana f. graciliflora Rehder
  • Pyrus calleryana f. tomentella Rehder
  • Pyrus calleryana var. dimorphophylla (Makino) Koidz.
  • Pyrus calleryana var. graciliflora (Rehder) Rehder
  • Pyrus calleryana var. tomentella (Rehder) Rehder
  • Pyrus dimorphophylla Makino
  • Pyrus fauriei C.K.Schneid.
  • Pyrus fauriei var. major Nakai
  • Pyrus fauriei var. pyriformis Nakai
  • Pyrus kawakamii Hayata
  • Pyrus koehnei C.K.Schneid.
  • Pyrus mairei H.Lév.
  • Pyrus tsiukyoensis Koidz.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice, no toxicity claim and no native range, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.