Why are there so many Bradford pear trees in Ohio, and what's so bad about them? Answers to all your questions about the illegal Callery pear.

Bradford and other callery pear species have been banned for sale in Ohio. Plenty of native replacements can provide spring blooms in your Northeast Ohio garden.

Look around you at all the downy white, lollipop-shaped Bradford pear trees everywhere, and the teardrop-shaped Cleveland Select pears lining driveways and roads.

Callery pear trees are identifiable by their white blooms in spring, which typically come early and produce the aforementioned foul smell, the Minnesota Department of Agriculture explains.

The Callery pear tree, which comes in multiple varieties, including “Bradford” pear, “Autumn Blaze” and “Cleveland Select,” is native to Asia and is now considered an invasive plant.

There are multiple kinds of Callery pear trees. McKernan said the three most common types in Wichita are probably Bradford pear, Chanticleer pear and Cleveland pear trees.

It seems spring has finally reached Ohio. “With warmer temperatures, we are starting to see some of our first blooms of the season,” said Thomas Becker, an Ohio State University Extensi… ...

Flowers and trees are starting to bloom across Ohio, but not all things in bloom are a good thing.The Callery pear tree is starting to bloom across the state and is easy to spot along about any ...

Bradford pear trees are a pretty sight, but they produce a pretty foul odor. They're also illegal in Ohio. Here's what to know.

Here's what to know about Bradford pear trees and what native alternatives you can plant instead. What is a Bradford pear? ∎ A flowering cultivar of Pyrus calleryana, a tree native to Asia.

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Anyone who submits a photo of their cutdown Bradford pear or Callery pear will get a free native tree to replace it, the Missouri Department of Conservation said.