And why do they smell? Here's what you should know. Callery pear trees (Pyrus calleryana) were introduced by the United States Department of Agriculture as ornamental landscape trees in the mid ...

Many people find the smell that emits from the Bradford Pear to closely resemble the smell of urine or rotting fish. It is meant to attract pollinators like blowflies, but it has the unfortunate side ...

A Bradford pear tree in bloom is a sure sign that springtime ... the flowers that bloom in the spring produce an unpleasant smell of rotting fish. 'I miss you so': 1930s love letters found in ...

Everyone has a different analogy for that smell, and none of them are evocative ... species causes another significant problem: Ornamental pear trees are very susceptible to fire blight, a ...

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder,” as the saying goes — but when it comes to Bradford pear trees, the nose often ...

is an ornamental species native to Southeast Asia that was introduced to America in the 1900s. Because of fire blight, a disease affecting pear and apple trees, the Callery pear was introduced in ...

You may love them for their showering white canopy or hate their pungent smell, but this spring is the final show for York’s iconic white flowering Bradford Pear trees. Here since the 1970s ...

It's officially spring in Ohio, meaning you've probably seen white-flowering Callery ... Callery pear trees are "weak-wooded, poorly branched, and their flowers smell like a high school locker ...