Details for: PI 707060, Pyrus pyrifolia (Burm. f.) Nakai, 'J Russell Smith Timber Pear'

Summary Data

Taxonomy:

Pyrus pyrifolia (Burm. f.) Nakai

Cultivar:

'J Russell Smith Timber Pear'

Origin:

Donated –

Maintained:

National Clonal Germplasm Repository

Received by NPGS:

Mar 2025

Improvement Status:

Cultivar

Form Received:

Scion

Life Form:

Tree

Availability

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Core Passport Data

Taxonomy:

Pyrus pyrifolia (Burm. f.) Nakai

Cultivar:

'J Russell Smith Timber Pear'

Origin:

Donated –

Maintained:

National Clonal Germplasm Repository

Received by NPGS:

Mar 2025

Improvement Status:

Cultivar

Form Received:

Scion

Life Form:

Tree

Source History

Donated

March 2025.
Oregon, United States

Donor(s):

Homanics, Christopher

Accession Names and Identifiers

'J Russell Smith Timber Pear'

Type: Cultivar name

Group: PEAR

CPYR 3187

Type: Site identifier

Group: LOCAL

Corvallis local number

Narrative

Smith (1874-1966) wrote the book Tree Crops - A Permanent Agriculture whichwrote about the life and breeding efforts of John Hershey. He was an early advocate of perennial agricultural systems, soil conservation, andagroforestry. He is best known though for advancing the field of geography. A friend of Eleanor Roosevelt, he almost convinved Congress to pass a bill to fund agroforestry experimental stations all around the country which failed by one vote. In his later years, he ran a nursery in Virginia that propagated useful tree crops, including fruit and nut trees. He worked to breed blight resistant chestnuts and also was an early importer of a number of Asian persimmons accessions. In amongst the overgrown rows of his remaining nursery block, Buzz Ferver and Zach Elfers spotted a lone pyrifolia type pear that towered over even the nut trees at over 40 feet tall. Being that is was growing in-between existing rows it is a probable seedling possibly a second generation naturalized seedling from something that was once there. In general shape, color, and appearance it is resemblance to Okusankichi. Joseph and I viewed historical records as well as compared it to Okusankichi and it appears to have a completely different flavor, different ripening period, different scaly russet pattern, and a longer neck. In short, it is an excellent late-season Pyrus pyrifolia pear.

Pyrus pyrifolia (Burm. f.) Nakai

Genus:

Pyrus

Section:

Pashia

Family:

Rosaceae

Subfamily:

Amygdaloideae

Tribe:

Maleae

Subtribe:

Malinae

Nomen number:

30569

Place of publication:

Bot. Mag. (Tokyo) 40:564. 1926

Verified:

07/13/2011 by ARS Systematic Botanists.

Other conspecific taxa

Pyrus pyrifolia (Burm. f.) Nakai var. culta (Makino) Nakai (0 active accession[s])
Pyrus pyrifolia (Burm. f.) Nakai var. pyrifolia (1 active accession[s])

Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations

Autonym(s)
Pyrus pyrifolia (Burm. f.) Nakai f. pyrifolia

Heterotypic Synonym(s)
Pyrus pyrifolia (Burm. f.) Nakai f. stapfiana (Rehder) Rehder
Pyrus serotina Rehder
Pyrus serotina Rehder var. serotina
Pyrus serotina Rehder var. stapfiana Rehder

Common names

Language	Name	Alternate name	note	seq	Citation
Swedish	sandpäron			2	Aldén, B., S. Ryman, & M. Hjertson. 2012. Svensk Kulturväxtdatabas, SKUD (Swedish Cultivated and Utility Plants Database; online resource)
Transcribed Korean	dolbaenamu			2	Mun-Chan, B. et al. 1986. A checklist of the Korean cultivated plants. Kulturpflanze 34:123.

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