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Wild pear

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Çakal Armudu

Scientific Name:  Pyrus syriaca

other names: Syrian Pear

AVAILABLE: SEP-OCT

EDIBLE PARTS:

Description

  • glossy, vibrant green ovate egg-shaped, narrow at base -lanceolate pointed at both ends leaves with serrated edges
  • a large shrub or small tree with spiny branches
  • small, white, fragrant flowers that bloom in clusters

preparation

  1. pick and eat the fruit when ripe, yellow, firm not hard
  2. the fruit is sweet, granular, not as juicy and the skin is rough and harder than cultivated varieties 
  3. make into jam

extra info

Pyrus syriaca, as the original wild pear is used as a root stock to graft to for other cultivated pear varieties.

Also available in

December

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