The highly invasive Callery pear (one cultivar of which is the Bradford pear), is blooming now across Missouri, or will be soon. Non-native Callery pear cultivars cross pollinate, creating hybrid offspring that spread aggressively with the help of foraging birds carrying fertile seeds. As part of its 2019 Callery pear awareness program—to call attention to […more]
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