Pyrus pyraster L.

English: Wild pear

German: Wildbirne

Kingdom: Plantae (2659)

  Phylum: Tracheophyta (2572)

    Class: Magnoliopsida (2167)

      Order: Rosales (119)

        Family: Rosaceae (56)(family description)

          Genus: Pyrus (4)

            Epithet: pyraster L. (1)

pyraster => from Pyrus + lat. suffix -aster, thus meaning Pyrus pyraster

Climate: temperate, sub-tropical

Habitat: mesophytic

Habit: tree

Flower colour: white

Check for Pyrus pyraster at

World Flora Online, GBIF or IPNI

• [419] Wild apple and pear - EUFORGEN
• [658] Pyrus pyraster - Plants For A Future database

• [17] Rothmaler, W. (1995): Exkursionsflora von Deutschland, Band 3, Gefäßpflanzen: Atlasband. Gustav Fischer Verlag, Stuttgart, Germany.