Introduced in the mid-1960s, the popular cultivar of Callery pear was once a favorite among landscapers. They were also pest-resistant and disease-free. Today, these trees are known to be an invasive ...

Many people find the smell that emits from the Bradford Pear to closely resemble the smell of urine or rotting fish. It is meant to attract pollinators like blowflies, but it has the unfortunate side ...

Callery pear trees simply became too easy and inexpensive to pass up despite its flaws. This overplanting of a single species causes another significant problem: Ornamental pear trees are very ...

That tree is the Callery pear ... "Then, with the expansion of different cultivated varieties, we started to see a problem," Becker said. "Callery pears began producing small, brown, almost ...

the popular cultivar of Callery pear was once a favorite among landscapers. They were also pest-resistant and disease-free. Today, these trees are known to be an invasive species, growing rapidly ...