Flower – Small white flowers formed in a 3” wide corymb; bloom late April to early May. Bark – Light brown/gray; at maturity, bark has horizontal lenticels. The flowering pear (Pyrus calleryana), also ...

The snarl of a chainsaw never sounds sweeter than when slicing through the trunk of a nasty Bradford pear (Pyrus calleryana). I have railed against the spring-blooming, white-flowering tree for years.