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Pears Pyrus

Most rated Pyrus records are fire-resistant — 2 of 4 records, including the genus rated as a group. These counts describe the cited records — 4 records carrying 19 evidence rows from 11 cited sources; they do not make one verdict for the genus.

Rated as a group: Pear Pyrus sp. Fire-resistant Consensus 4 sources rate the genus as a whole. Species evidence never rolls upward into a genus verdict, and genus claims never override a species record. ›

Fire-resistant

1 species

Callery pear Fire-resistant Pyrus calleryana Consensus · 4 sources Zones 5–5 genus-level claims ↑

Documented conflict

1 species

honest ties — treat conservatively near structures

Pear Documented conflict Pyrus communis the Eastern US Fire Performance Plant Selector says low · New Zealand's FENZ laboratory directory says high Zones 5–5 genus-level claims ↑

Awaiting evidence

1 species

Pyrus ussuriensis Awaiting evidence Pyrus ussuriensis Limited evidence · 2 sources Zones 3–3 genus-level claims ↑

About pears

Corpus context. Pyrus is the directory's #230 largest of 550 genus groups: 4 records carrying 19 evidence rows from 11 cited sources, recorded as tree , hardy across USDA zones 3–5. Those are corpus facts, not a whole-genus flammability claim.

More about Pyrus: Wikipedia — external references; not evidence sources.

Where rated pears grow

Tagged as growing in 41 states.

See Pyrus on Grow → · JSON