Details for: PI 637990, Pyrus communis L., Endicott Pear


Summary Data
Taxonomy:
Pyrus communis L.
Top Name:
Endicott Pear
Origin:
Collected – Massachusetts, United States
Received by NPGS:
28 Aug 1997
Improvement Status:
Cultivated material
Form Received:
Cutting
Life Form:
Tree
Life Habit:
Tree
Availability
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Core Passport Data
Taxonomy:
Pyrus communis L.
Top Name:
Endicott Pear
Origin:
Collected – Massachusetts, United States
Received by NPGS:
28 Aug 1997
Improvement Status:
Cultivated material
Form Received:
Cutting
Life Form:
Tree
Life Habit:
Tree
Source History
Collected
July 1997.
Massachusetts, United States
Locality: Behind Osram Sylvania building, Endicott Road, Danvers, MA.
Coordinates: 42.5483, -70.9298 (Map it)
Habitat: Wild Habitat
Comment: Scion wood obtained from Endicott Pear tree in Danvers, Massachusetts by J. Postman.
Collector(s):
Developed
NEAR 1632.
Massachusetts, United States

Developer(s):
Donated
28 August 1997.
Oregon, United States

Donor(s):
Accession Names and Identifiers
Endicott Pear
Type: Local name

CPYR 2595
Type: Site identifier
Group: LOCAL
Corvallis local number

EUROPEAN CULTIVAR
Type: Site identifier
Group: CROPTYPE

Narrative
The USDA Agriculture Yearbook, 1925 reports on 'the remarkable fruit tree' in Danversport, Massachusetts. According to the memoir of Governor Endicott's descendant, Samuel Endicott, the tree may have been planted in its present location in 1632, or it may have been transplanted from 'Governor Endecott's garden in Salem.' (The spelling of the family name 'Endecott' was changed to 'Endicott' in the 1700s.) There is a good possibility that the tree came to Massachusetts from England on the ship Arbella in 1630. U.P. Hedrick (The Pears of New York, 1921) wrote that the Endicott Pear Tree was very old and decayed as early as 1763, and that it was injured during a hurricane in 1804, again in 1815, and yet again in 1843. It had been protected by a fence for about 50 years when Hedrick wrote this account, and he estimated its height to be about 80 feet in the late 1800s. Root suckers bore fruit identical to the original tree, which proved to Hedrick that the Endicott Pear was a seedling and not a grafted tree. In 1934 the tree was nearly demolished by another hurricane but again it re-grew from the twisted trunk. It had a run-in with vandals in 1964, who chopped off all the branches and cut the trunk off 6 feet above the ground. Again it re-sprouted. Scions were collected by J. Postman in July, 1997, to propagate for the Corvallis Repository. The fruit is 'of no particular consequence', according to Hedrick. It is medium in size, unattractive, and coarse textured. But the cultivar has an impressive history and may have useful genetic value in whatever traits have contributed to its great longevity. Today (2002) the tree is secured by a chain-link fence behind the Osram Sylvania Company building on Endicott Street in Danvers, Massachusetts. -- J. Postman 2002
Pyrus communis L.
Genus:
Pyrus
Section:
Pyrus
Family:
Rosaceae
Subfamily:
Amygdaloideae
Tribe:
Maleae
Subtribe:
Malinae
Nomen number:

30474
Place of publication:

Sp. pl. 1:479, 2:1200. 1753
Comment:
probably of hybrid origin
Verified:
07/07/2011 by ARS Systematic Botanists.
Other conspecific taxa
Pyrus communis L. subsp. caucasica (Fed.) Browicz (77 active accession[s])
Pyrus communis L. subsp. communis (39 active accession[s])
Pyrus communis L. subsp. pyraster (L.) Ehrh. (113 active accession[s])
Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations
Heterotypic Synonym(s)
Pyrus asiae-mediae (Popov) Maleev
Pyrus balansae Decne.
Pyrus bourgaeana Decne.
Pyrus communis L. subsp. bourgaeana (Decne.) Nyman
Pyrus communis L. var. mariana Willk.
Pyrus domestica Medik.
Pyrus elata Rubtzov
Pyrus medvedevii Rubtzov

Common names
LanguageNameAlternate namenoteseqCitation
Englishpear  1Wiersema, J. H. & B. León. 1999. World economic plants: a standard reference CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL.
Frenchpoirier  2Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants
GermanBirnbaum  2Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants
GermanBirne  2Reichel, S. 1998. pers. comm. Note: re. German common names
GermanBirnenbaum  2Reichel, S. 1998. pers. comm. Note: re. German common names
Italianpera  2Hanelt, P., ed. 2001. Mansfeld's encyclopedia of agricultural and horticultural crops. Volumes 1-6
Italianpero  2Hanelt, P., ed. 2001. Mansfeld's encyclopedia of agricultural and horticultural crops. Volumes 1-6
Japanese Rōmajiseiyō-nashi  2Ohwi, J. 1965. Flora of Japan (Engl. ed.).
Portuguesepereira  2Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants
Spanishpera  2Hanelt, P., ed. 2001. Mansfeld's encyclopedia of agricultural and horticultural crops. Volumes 1-6
Spanishperal  2Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants
Swedishpäron  2Aldén, B., S. Ryman, & M. Hjertson. 2012. Svensk Kulturväxtdatabas, SKUD (Swedish Cultivated and Utility Plants Database; online resource)
Transcribed Chinesexi yang li as Pyrus communis var. sativa2Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. 1994-. Flora of China (English edition). Note: = Pyrus communis var. sativa
Transcribed Koreanbyeongbaenamu  2Mun-Chan, B. et al. 1986. A checklist of the Korean cultivated plants. Kulturpflanze 34:122.
Annotations
  • Taxonomic Re-Identification: 21 Oct 2005, from Pyrus ussuriensis Maxim. & Rupr. to Pyrus communis L.
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Phenotype Data

CategoryDescriptorDescriptionValueSample SizeStudyInventoryAvailability
CYTOLOGICPLOIDY LEVELNumber of sets of chromosomes.2x - diploid PYRUS.PLOIDY.2012CPYR 2595 .002 PLNot Available
DISEASEFRUIT_SCABRATING OF DAMAGE CAUSED BY FRUIT SCAB0 - 0 (No Fruit to assess) PYRUS.CORVALLIS.2005.FRUITSCABCPYR 2595 .001 PLNot Available
DISEASEFRUIT_SCABRATING OF DAMAGE CAUSED BY FRUIT SCAB0 - 0 (No Fruit to assess) PYRUS.CORVALLIS.2005.FRUITSCABCPYR 2595 .002 PLNot Available