Callery Pear, Pyrus calleryana Dcne.
DISTINGUISHING CHARACTERISTICS: Leaves simple, alternate, ovate to nearly round, 1 1/2 to 3 inches long, glabrous and often glossy, toothed. Winter twigs moderate in diameter, brown; leaf scars small with 3 bundle scars. Buds with several scales, often rather large, hairy. Flowers showy, perfect, regular, in corymblike clusters just before the leaves appear; petals 5, white, roundish; styles not joined at base. Fruit a pome about 3/8 inch in diameter, brown with pale dots. Bark gray to brown, becoming shallowly furrowed with age.
SIMILAR TREES: Flowering crabapples have elliptical to oval leaves, smaller buds, flowers with the styles joined at the base, and more conspicuous red or yellow fruits.
IOWA DISTRIBUTION: Planted throughout the state.
Forest and Shade Trees of Iowa: Third Edition, by Peter J. van der Linden and Donald R. Farrar
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