Pyrus syriaca
Pyrus syriaca
Çakalarmudu
Spinescent tree up to 12 m; twigs glabrous. Leaves narrowly lanceolate to ovate-oblong, broadest in lower half of lamina, 4-8 x 1.5-3 cm, crenate-serrate, sometimes entire in lower part, bilaterally glabrous, lustrous above, dull beneath, somewhat coriaeeous; rounded or cuneate at base; petioles up to 5 cm. Inflorescence many-flowered. Flowers white, c. 3 cm diam.; pedicels thick, c. 2.5 cm, elongating in fruit to c. 5 cm. Fruit subglobose or pyriform, 2-2.5 cm long; sepals persistent. Fl. 4-5. Dry stony slopes, forest remnants, field edges, 500-2000 m.
1. Leaves over 3 cm long; petioles up to 5 cm var. syriaca
1. Leaves up to 3.5 cm long; petioles up to 3.5 cm var. microphylla
