Himalayan pear, Indian wild pear

Plant Description

Deciduous tree

Straight trunk with rough, gray bark that peels off in narrow strips. Branches are arranged in whorls.

Leaves are ovate to broadly lance-shaped, long-pointed, toothed, hairless and shining. Leaves are 5-10 cm long, those on sucker shoots are often 3-5-lobed. Young leaves are white-woolly.

Flowers are 2-2.5 cm across, with white obovate petals with darker veins. White to p;inkish.

Fruit is round, 1.3-2.5 cm, dark brown, covered with raised pores. Fruit is edible when half-rotten.

Phenology

Flowering: March- April