It doesn't matter if you call it a Callery pear or a Bradford pear — in 2025, the trees are ... across them. Like the native buckeye tree nuts, they’re not edible for humans.

As Paul Cappiello, executive director at Yew Dell Botanical Gardens, writes, Callery pear trees are "weak-wooded, poorly branched, and their flowers smell like a high school locker room laundry pile." ...

Today, these trees are known to be an invasive species, growing rapidly and outperforming native plants. The fruits the trees produce are also inedible to humans and provide little ... treated with a ...

A Bradford pear tree in bloom is a sure sign that springtime is in the air. You may have noticed the trees by the delicate white flowers they carry, adding to the beautiful seasonal backdrop.

As Paul Cappiello, executive director at Yew Dell Botanical Gardens, writes, Callery pear trees are "weak-wooded, poorly branched, and their flowers smell like a high school locker room laundry pile." ...