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From beloved to banished, cities and states are outlawing cultivars of the Callery pear, a popular, yet highly invasive, ...

First, cut out all of the infected branch tips and leaves that you can reach and throw them out with the trash. Next spring, ...

Do you want to go out to your backyard and grab fresh produce right off the branch? These beginner-friendly fruit trees are simple to grow and maintain.

If this sounds familiar, you most likely encountered a Bradford pear tree. Native to Asia ... way to breed a resistance to a disease called fire blight into our native pears, according to Jason ...

The Callery pear tree − also known as the Bradford pear ... breeding programs in the U.S. because it was known to resist fire blight, a disease affecting pear and apple trees.

Once one tree gets fire blight, it becomes easy to transmit to nearby pear trees and other plants in the rose family, such as apples, crabapples and roses. As more professionals have raised the ...

Because of fire blight, a disease affecting pear and apple trees ... causing a rapid change in plant and wildlife communities. This tree is a significant threat to native land and wildlife ...

According to WCMH, the Callery pear tree, a species native to Asia ... first brought to North America in the 1900s to combat "fire blight," which, according to Ohio State University, is a ...

Fire blight was widespread at the time, and Callery pears are resistant to it. “The idea was they could possibly breed the two trees together and get a fruiting pear tree that showed good ...