pear trees

Bosc fruit bearers

Pear trees are fruit-bearing trees of the genus Pyrus, cultivated for their sweet, bell-shaped fruit.

The phrase appears most famously in "The Twelve Days of Christmas," where a partridge sits in one: a partridge in a pear tree.

Pear trees are long-lived and ornamental, with white spring blossoms.

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