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Pyrus bretschneideri Rehder

Chinese white pear; White pear; Ya pear

Rosaceae · China North-Central, China Southeast

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Pyrus bretschneideri, photograph Honmingjun, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia CommonsPyrus bretschneideri, photograph Fanghong, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia CommonsPyrus bretschneideri, photograph Fanghong, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia CommonsPyrus bretschneideri, photograph NobbiP, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia CommonsPyrus bretschneideri, photograph Goele, Public domain, via Wikimedia CommonsPyrus bretschneideri, photograph Zhang Hung panz, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons 12 photographs ›

Summary

Pyrus × bretschneideri (or Pyrus bretschneideri), the ya pear or pearple or Chinese white pear (Chinese: 白梨; pinyin: báilí), is an interspecific hybrid species of pear native to North China, where it is widely grown for its edible fruit.

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Pyrus × bretschneideri", CC BY-SA 4.0.

About the genus · Pyrus

Pears are a genus of trees, Pyrus, in the family Rosaceae, that bear an edible apple-like fruit of the same name. Several species of pears are cultivated for their fruit and juices, while others are grown as ornamental flowering trees.

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Pear", CC BY-SA 4.0.

Cultivation

Nothing derived: no habitat climate for this species.

Climate across the habitat

No habitat climate can be derived: Only 1 distinct land cell of the climate grid holds an in-range record placed to within 10 km; three are needed for an envelope. 106 of the 107 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km, or to no stated accuracy and fewer than three decimals or by something other than a person's observation, and cannot place a climate cell, though they count for the map and its marker.

Natural habitat

Native range as published by WCVP; the marker is where the records are densest and decides nothing.
Openly licensed records inside the range, framed on where they fall.
NativeChina North-Central, China Southeast · introduced: Inner Mongolia, Xinjiang, Pakistan · regions are the level-3 units of the World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, as Kew's World Checklist records ranges, some under historical names such as Yugoslavia or Czechoslovakia (how).
Map marker33.223, 107.546 · in the densest population, 81 records (76% of those in range)
Kew's description“tree” · “temperate” · quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Evidence usedThe map marker rests on all 107 georeferenced records inside the native range; the map shows only the 45 openly licensed ones, which alone would put the marker 71 km away. 22 records outside the WCVP native range not used. No climate across the range is derived for this species. 106 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km, or with no stated accuracy (admitted only as a person's observation to three decimals), and stay on the map but off the climate.
How this section is made
The map marker: the openly licensed record nearest the middle of the densest 1° population inside the densest 4° block of the 107 in-range records; it decides nothing. Records outside the native range, living specimens and records marked introduced are not used; which records count.

Photographs

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Photographs: Honmingjun, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons; Fanghong, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (2); NobbiP, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons; Goele, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons; Zhang Hung panz, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

Other Pyrus 19 in the reference

Pyrus betulifolia Pyrus betulifolia Birch-leaf pear Photo: CC0, ÖkopatóPál Pyrus boissieriana Rosaceae Pyrus bourgaeana Pyrus bourgaeana Iberian pear Photo: CC BY, Barry StewartPyrus calleryana Pyrus calleryana Callery pear Photo: CC BY, Kaden SlonePyrus communis Pyrus communis Pear Photo: CC0, author not statedPyrus cordata Pyrus cordata Plymouth pear Photo: CC BY, Carminda SantosPyrus elaeagrifolia Pyrus elaeagrifolia Oleaster-leafed Pear Photo: CC0, author not statedPyrus georgica Pyrus georgica Rosaceae Photo: CC BY, Zübeyde Uğurlu & Ali Aslan Dönmez Pyrus grossheimii Rosaceae Pyrus korshinskyi Pyrus korshinskyi Bukharan Pear Photo: CC BY-SA, Mike Shaw Pyrus × michauxii Rosaceae Pyrus nivalis Pyrus nivalis Snow pear Photo: CC BY, Patrick Hacker all 20 ›

Names & registers

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The record

Family
Rosaceae
Described by
Rehder
Native to
China North-Central, China Southeast
Wild records
107 in range · 45 open

Every figure here is derived from public data by a stated rule and names its source; nothing about this species is written for its page by a person or by AI, apart from the marked, credited quotations. How →

Where this page came from built 2026-10-22
GBIF species record gbif.species answeredasked 2026-10-22
GBIF synonyms gbif.synonyms answeredasked 2026-10-22
GBIF common names gbif.vernacular answeredasked 2026-10-22names fetched 2026-10-22
WCVP native range wcvp.distribution answeredas of 2026-06-04
GBIF occurrence records gbif.occurrences answeredas of 2026-10-21GBIF occurrence download https://doi.org/10.15468/dl.hbdw64, of 2026-10-21
Habitat climate climate nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22only 1 distinct land cell of the climate grid holds an in-range record placed to within 10 km; three are needed for an envelope
Wikidata wikidata answeredasked 2026-10-22
Wikipedia wikipedia answeredasked 2026-10-22
iNaturalist photographs, wild inat.photos.wild nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22from iNaturalist's open data of 2026-09-27: research-grade observations with an open-licence photograph, the 24 whose photographs iNaturalist received last (the open data holds no votes); filled 2026-10-22
iNaturalist photographs, cultivated inat.photos.cultivated not asked
GBIF media gbif.media nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22
Wikimedia Commons commons answeredasked 2026-10-22
OpenAlex papers openalex not askednot yet asked for this reference; a later fill takes the papers from OpenAlex's snapshot

Every source is recorded as having answered, reported nothing, refused, failed, not been asked, or answered twice where one answer is taken (“not taken: two items answered”), and, for a source asked when this page was built, when: the figures are as the source held them that day; a source read from a file (Kew's World Checklist, a GBIF download) says "as of" the file's day instead; a row carried from an earlier build of the page names that build instead. Only “nothing to report” is ever shown as an absence. Records came from 10 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.

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