The Mystery Tree

[JRinPA]

It looks like some type of pear to me, but, I only have this tree to compare it.

Here are pics from today. I'm at 40 deg latitude and the flowers came on early this year and were through that tender stage before the late May 17th frost. But it was not a heavy flowering like some years.

I tried to classify this tree a few years back and decided on d'Anjou. Regular, not Red Anjou. Previous to that, a local cider mill employee thought maybe it was a Clapp's Favorite. I just know the tree was put in by the original homeowners that were Greek or close to it, and they had a lot of Med crops here that were overwintered in the basement.


I should be thinning them out to 1 or 2 pears per node, but this tree is big and I can only reach the lowest branches without a ladder, and a ladder won't work too well with the leaves and fruit on. So instead we get some pears every year, and a big crop every second or third year depending on the weather.