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== is there a literary type or a reference to a published description of flavor that can adequately describe flavor ==
== a description of pear flavor ==
I think a description of the flavor of pears should be placed at the article
I think a flavor description should be added. as Wikipedia goes sampling every fruit or vegetable without a taste description, tasting them, putting descriptions online, then writing it up at Wikipedia would be a kind of cryptoliteraery achievement of some kind
actually all of the foods at wikipedia that have an opportunity to have their flavor described might make a truly entertaining wikipedia activity


== Disambiguity Page? ==
== Disambiguity Page? ==

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a description of pear flavor

I think a description of the flavor of pears should be placed at the article actually all of the foods at wikipedia that have an opportunity to have their flavor described might make a truly entertaining wikipedia activity

Disambiguity Page?

I've added an article for the PHP Extension and Application Repository which is commonly referred to as PEAR by PHP programmers. Should this page be moved to Pear (fruit) and Pear be made a disambiguity page?

Vic 19:03, 23 Jul 2004 (UTC)

I added a disambig link to that at the bottom of the page. I don't think this page needs to be moved. Kappa 11:57, 7 Nov 2004 (UTC)

genus?

Does pear belong to the same genus as apple like it says? ...I thought apple was in the genus malus and pear in pyrus? They're in the same subfamily.


The accepted taxonomy for the past several decades is that apple are Malus and pears are Pyrus. Apples are no longer classified as in the same genus as pears.

Other variations possibly to include

Wild pear: Pyrus bourgeana, (Peral Silvestre in spanish) is offered in the "Campana de Setos" of Medioambiente in Andalucia, 2007 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.111.36.139 (talk) 16:17, 23 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]


Pyrus bourgeana is not a recognized primary species. I suspect it is a botanical variety or local variant of P. communis. Go to the GRIN taxonomy web page for authoritative taxonomic information. My personal preference is to be a taxonomic "lumper", i.e. grouping similar local variants under one primary species, rather than a "splitter", i.e. designating minor variations as distinct species. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.46.213.156 (talk) 01:26, 10 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Scientific Name

The scientific name for pear is Pyrus communis. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.81.75.220 (talk) 23:29, 3 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]


But Pyrus communis is only one of 23 primary species of pear. Everything in Pyrus is a pear, not just the cultivated European pear, P. communis. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.46.218.233 (talk) 02:50, 19 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

American perars

Pear pips were sent to Massachusetts Bay from the beginning (1630), but since pears don't come true from seed, all those New World pears with Old World (French usually) names arre just "look-alikes". Is that not true?--Wetman (talk) 04:52, 10 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]


What pear cultivars are you referring to? In most cases, I suspect that if it has an "Old world" name, it was brought over as a grafted tree, and would be true-to-type,not a seedling. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.46.216.159 (talk) 21:34, 5 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Pyrus Ranata

In the Siberian Journal of John Ledyard he makes reference to an Apple tree that was cultivated in and around the Town of Irkutsk whose fruit is the size of "a full sized pea in France and England". He states that "It is the true and real apple and their Naturalists distingusih it by the name Pyrus Ranata." I have been unable to find any information about it on Wikipedia or elsewhere.


YOu might look for as Malus ranata, since Malus is the correct genus name for apples. The use of Pyrus for apples has been corrected. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.46.216.159 (talk) 21:36, 5 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Bad Cholesterol

Do not all fruits, like, don't have any? Why should pear be mentioned specifically? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.69.107.155 (talk) 21:33, 22 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Comice

Perhpas someone could add comice to the list of species and say something about it. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.66.72.13 (talk) 18:17, 25 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]


Comice is not a species. It is a cultivar (cultivated variety) of Pyrus communis, and is listed as a major cultivar on the European pear (Pyrus communis) page. The full name is Doyenne du Comice.

Artistic Pear image

I don't think the image adds any encyclopedic value beyond the image used at the beginning of the article. If there is consensus to do so, I'll remove it. Hertzsprung (talk) 22:00, 14 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Health benefits

This section is a potential magnet for fringe and pseudo-scientific claims, and the sources need to be rock solid. I've tagged several statements as needing individual sourcing as it's not clear that the source at the end applies to them all. 86.133.245.228 (talk) 03:29, 20 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Hmmm. I see. I thought just adding a {{references}} tag at the top would be better than 4 individual tags, but that particular tag says the whole section is unreferenced--and it's not, just mostly unreferenced. Thanks. --KP Botany (talk) 05:08, 20 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Top ten producers

The production figures table is headed "Top ten pear producers — 11 June 2008". What is the significance of such a specific date? These are annual figures I presume? 86.161.43.69 (talk) 01:27, 15 April 2009 (UTC).[reply]

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