Stats

Lifespan: Decades
Size: Large
Diet: Photosynthetic
Activity: Diurnal
Social: Solitary
Biome: Temperate forest
Range: Temperate Eurasia & North Africa
Movement: Sessile
Breeding: Seeds
Defense: None
Status: Common

About

A genus of Rosaceae trees and shrubs grown across temperate Eurasia and North Africa for their sweet, gritty-fleshed pomes. Wild pears are thorny and small-fruited; thousands of years of cultivation have given us the familiar large, juicy dessert and cooking pears, alongside ornamental species prized for spring blossom.

Life cycle

1.
seed
A dormant seed waits for water and warmth before germinating.
2.
sprout
A first shoot emerges with cotyledon leaves and a tap root reaching down.
3.
sapling
A young plant grows true leaves and a stem or trunk, putting on height each season.
4.
mature
Fully grown, flowering or fruiting at adult size.

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Taxonomy

Kingdom: Plantae
Phylum: Tracheophyta
Class: Magnoliopsida
Order: Rosales
Family: Rosaceae
Genus: Pyrus