Bradford Pear, Pyrus Calleryana, Tree Seeds, (Callery Pear)
3 nice healthy seeds!Showy Ornamental Flowers, Fall Colors, Fast Growth, Shade Tree, Specimen Tree, Street Tree, Cold, Drought and Urban Tolerant, Adaptable, Bonsai   Native to China and Taiwan, Callery Pear is an upright branched ornamental tree that typically grows to 30 to 50 feet tall. Pyramidal to columnar in youth, but tends to become oval to spreading with age. It is noted for its early profuse spring bloom, quality glossy green foliage and often excellent reddish-purple fall color. It produces small, inedible, greenish-yellow fruits to 1/2 inch in diameter, which are of little practical value or ornamental interest.   The specific epithet and common name honor Joseph Callery, a French missionary, who discovered and collected this plant in China in 1858. In 1917, seed was brought to the U.S. from China for hybridization experiments aimed at improving fireblight resistance for the common fruiting pear (Pyrus communis). The experiments generally proved unsuccessful. However, in the 1950s, Callery Pear emerged in U. S. commerce as a promising new ornamental tree, leading to massive landscape plantings.   Leaf: Alternate, simple, heart-shaped to ovate with a finely serrated margin, 2 to 3 inches in length, shiny green above, paler and dull below. Leaves turn attractive reddish-purple in fall.Flower: Large (2 to 4 inches across) clusters of showy white flowers (1/2 to 3/4 inch across) appearing in early spring, before or with the leaves. Often so dense the entire tree appears white. Fruit: Small (1/2 inch diameter), round, brown pome, very bitter. Twig: Glossy brown to reddish brown, medium in texture, spur shoots present; terminal buds are large (1/4 to 1/2 inch long), ovate, and covered in light brown wooly hairs.