Pyrus elaeagnifolia
Pyrus elaeagnifolia
Ahlat
Tree up to 10 m, spinescent or unarmed; young twigs greyish- or whitish-tomentose. Leaves narrowly elliptic or ovate-oblong, obtuse or shortly acute, 3-7 x 2-3 cm, entire, bilaterally greyish- or whitish-pubescent, cuneate and decurrent or rounded at base; petiole 1-4 cm. Inflorescence many-flowered. Flowers c. 3cm diam., white; pedicels 1-2 cm. Fruit single or in pairs, pyriform or subglobose, 2-3 cm diam., yellowish-green, at first white-villous, later glabrous or with a few hairs near the base and apex; sepals persistent; pedicels c. 2 cm, thick. Fl. 4-5.
1. Usually spinescent; leaves broadest at the middle or in the upper half, narrowly cuneate at the base, greyish-pubescent subsp. elaeagnifolia
1. Unarmed; leaves broadest in the lower half of the lamina, often rounded at the base, densely white-pubescent subsp. kotschyana
