Botanische Merkmale: Bau der Frucht wie bei Malus; hybridogene, formenreiche Kultursippe.
Mythologie: 'Pear trees can live up to 250 years and because of this, the ancient Chinese believed the pear was a symbol of immortality.
Famously, the pear appears in the song the Twelve Days of Christmas, in which a 'partridge in a pear tree' was sent by the subject's true love on the first day of Christmas. Pear trees only feature in the English version of this song.'
