Pear seeds

Common pear or wild pear / Pyrus communis - is one of the species of the genus Pyrus. Tree up to 20 m high, sometimes a large shrub. The shoots are prickly. The leaves are oblong-rounded, short-pointed, leathery, on long petioles, turning black when dry.

Flowers are collected 6-12 in corymbose inflorescences, formed from fruit buds formed in the previous year. The perianth is double, five-membered. The corolla is up to 3.5 cm in diameter, snow-white, sometimes pinkish. There are many stamens, they have a purple-pinkish color. Nectar-bearing tissue is located on the open receptacle. In both wild and cultivated forms, flowering is abundant and begins with the appearance of leaves, in May, somewhat earlier than in the apple tree. Trees in plantations bloom for 14-16 days, individual flowers up to 5 days.

The fruits are pear-shaped or round, ripen in August - September.

Fresh pears, taken in small quantities, regulate digestion and are perfectly absorbed by the human body.

Dried fruits have long been used in folk medicine. A decoction of dried pears quenches thirst during febrile illnesses, has an analgesic, antiseptic and diuretic effect, which relieves diarrhea. Boiled and baked pears are used for severe coughing, choking and pulmonary tuberculosis.

Pears are of great importance in dietary nutrition, especially for diabetics.

Pear flowers provide bees with a very valuable spring supply of nectar and pollen, but in terms of honey production, the pear is inferior to the cherry, plum and apple tree. The honey productivity of pears is about 20 kg of honey per 1 hectare of plantings. The nectar collected by bees from pears contains little sugar. According to other data, flowers secrete up to 1 mg of sugar in nectar per day and produce a lot of pollen, and the honey productivity of plantings is 10-25 kg/ha.