Apple and pear trees
These are sometimes confused with cherry trees.
Features of apple and pear trees
- styles: 2-5
- seeds: several
- ripe fruit: more than 2cm long with withered sepals persisting at the apex
Pear tree.
© Ted Kropiewnicki
Apple fruit.
© Andrea Moro
Apple with several seeds and withered sepals.
Pear fruit with several seeds and withered sepals.
Flower with 3 styles.
Features of cherry trees
- flowers in clusters with stalks all arising from a central point, or arranged along a short stem, or in spikes
- styles: 1
- seeds: 1
- ripe fruit: less than 2cm long with a smooth apex
- bark with raised horizontal lines or bands of pores (lenticels)
