asian pear

Related to asian pear: Korean pear

Asian pear

1. a tropical pear tree, esp any of several varieties of Japanese pear Pyrus serotina

2. the fruit of the Japanese pear, which resembles a large yellow apple, has crisp juicy flesh, and is cultivated in Japan, Korea, the US, and New Zealand

asian pear

Expensive in food stores, great to have growing in your yard.

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Speciation and origin in Pyrus had been taken place during the tertiary period in the mountainous areas of the western and southwestern China and spread both in east and West (Rubstov, 1944; Bell et al., 1996; Yamamoto and Chevreau, (2009) nearly all Asian pear species originated from five primitive genepools (Jiang et al., 2016).