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Pyrus Calleryana, AKA the Callery Pear, is a tree native to Southeast Asia. In the spring, it blooms with thousands of tiny white flowers and releases a foul odor. These fetid blooms turn into a hard, (media.kbin.social)
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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is one of the invasive ones, right? I've honestly never minded the smell, but I repeatedly hear other people saying it smells like various bodily fluids and I'm left confused.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yes it is invasive in North America.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

@ClimbingBunny @Nepenthe Ah, yes. The cultivar common here in Alabama is "Bradford Pear." Messy, malodorous, and super invasive in the American Southeast.