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Oh, the Callery pear: it’s one of the most common ornamental trees despite earning a reputation as one of the most loathed. Native to China, it was brought into the horticulture trade in North America because of its beautiful flowers and resistance to fire-blight, which heavily afflicts other pear species. So-called fruitless varieties didn’t live up to their names, though, and it escaped cultivation in the southeastern US and has since become a thicket-forming invasive menace. You’ll smell it when it blooms in early spring and you won’t be happy about it: its scent is famously musty and R-ratedly unpleasant to most.
Oh, the Callery pear: it’s one of the most common ornamental trees despite earning a reputation as one of the most loathed. Native to China, it was brought into the horticulture trade in North America because of its beautiful flowers and resistance to fire-blight, which heavily afflicts other pear species. So-called fruitless varieties didn’t live up to their names, though, and it escaped cultivation in the southeastern US and has since become a thicket-forming invasive menace. You’ll smell it when it blooms in early spring and you won’t be happy about it: its scent is famously musty and R-ratedly unpleasant to most.