Pyrus Calleryana, AKA the Callery Pear, is a tree native to Southeast Asia. In the spring, it blooms with thousands of tiny white flowers and releases a foul odor. These fetid blooms turn into a hard,
This is one of the invasive ones, right? I've honestly never minded the smell, but I repeatedly hear other people saying it smells like various bodily fluids and I'm left confused.
@ClimbingBunny@Nepenthe Ah, yes. The cultivar common here in Alabama is "Bradford Pear." Messy, malodorous, and super invasive in the American Southeast.
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Nepenthe@kbin.social · 3 pts · 3y
This is one of the invasive ones, right? I've honestly never minded the smell, but I repeatedly hear other people saying it smells like various bodily fluids and I'm left confused.
ClimbingBunny@kbin.social · 3 pts · 3y
Yes it is invasive in North America.
Tarasovich@kbin.social · 2 pts · 3y
@ClimbingBunny @Nepenthe Ah, yes. The cultivar common here in Alabama is "Bradford Pear." Messy, malodorous, and super invasive in the American Southeast.