Japanese name: マメナシ（豆梨） Scientific name:Pyrus calleryana
[Overview]
A deciduous tree 5–15 m tall, found only in a limited area.
It is rarely seen in sunny lowland wetlands and around reservoir ponds.
The twigs sometimes become thorns, and young branches are at first densely covered with woolly hairs.
Leaves are simple and alternate, broadly ovate to ovate-oblong, 4–9 cm long and 3–6 cm wide, with a pointed tip.
The leaf margins have fine, blunt teeth, and the tips of the teeth do not form awns.
Young leaves have soft white hairs.
The petiole is hairless and 2–4 cm long.
The flowers are white with 5 petals, 2.5 cm across, with 2–3 styles.
The flower stalk is 1.5–3 cm long and has soft white hairs.
The inside of the calyx is densely hairy.
The fruit is almost spherical, 1 cm across, with yellowish-brown skin and many lenticels.
The flesh is juicy but astringent, and contains many stone cells.
[Notes]
It is one of the plants of the Tokai hills element (Ise Bay surrounding element), together with Shidekobushi and Shiratama-hoshikusa.
There are native habitats and old trees designated as natural monuments.
