How hard is it to ID pears? Is it based more upon the fruits, or leaves, etc?
Because there’s one Pear Tree I’d love to ID - that’s at least 36 years old (so probably fireblight-resistant) and produced large pears that were pretty coarse-fleshed, juicy, and very crisp (sort of like Asian pears). They were hard, and definitely not soft or ever squishy… It was originally purchased from a nursery, so isn’t some wild unknown.
The pears themselves generally looked something like the LeConte’ pictured here:
From other descriptions I’ve read, it sounds like it might be something like a Kieffer or “sand pear” - except they never blushed like the Kieffers shown here.
I can post some pictures of its branches and leaves, but not sure if that’d help? For actual fruit, I’ll have to try to wait until fruiting season this year…