This pear is from seed. It’s beautiful tree with vigorous growth. Fruited in 5 years. The first year of fruit was last year and it gave 2 pears. The color and shape look like a Bosc Pear last year, but this year it looks different. The 2 pears on the plate, i picked them today. It’s small to medium size pear. The one on the tree are the larger pears.
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@smilemore
Seedlings do not grow true to the parent cultivar, and are often noticeably different from a fruit stock grafted on rootstock. You have a new cultivar!
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Okay, I got something new. It’s likely a hybrid from an Asian pear and European pear. I don’t usually spay the tree, but this one have to be sprayed once the leaves bloom. The young leaves makes a tasty snack for all type of insects. Once the leaves toughen up, no more spray. Nothing bother it afterward.
So how are the pears to eat compared to others? The fruit certainly look good.
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From last year, they tasted sweet and crunchy. They are sweeter than a Bartlett from the grocery store. They are very enjoyable snack. In addition, it was harvested late like in October.
This year, the fruit mature much faster. I’m going to let the pears sit on the counter top to ripe before digging in. I’ll see if there any difference in the taste this year.
I’d be interested in buying scions if they’re available this winter.
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Nice looking pear 
Congrats 
looks like a winner, maybe you should graft a few more in case you loose the tree for some reason.
it has very big leaves never seen this in a pear tree, that may be a good thing for fruit production.
May i see more pictures of the leaves? It appears it is ya li Ya Li aka yali pear
Notice the indention in the pear, serration and shape of leaves, partial russeting, quick production, firm flesh when ripe, shape of pears, notice the stem is large next to the fruit but skinny above that. It all fits ya li. Ya li leaves are always wavy like these shown. That is a very unique set of characteristics.
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The thought of selling scions never cross my mind. I got no motivation for it at this time.
This is the one I grafted onto an apple root stock late in Spring. It’s already over 5 feet tall and growing everyday. Yeah, the leaves are still huge on the little twig. In addition, I grafted onto a bigger apple tree to do a cocktail tree along with an Asian pear.
I apparently didn’t read the title of the thread.
You apparently didn’t read the post 
This pear is from seed.
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If this is a seedling, it is unique. If its remarkable, this is your opportunity to give it a name you like and make a legacy by sharing it with other fruit growers. Is it worth that?`
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I will take more picture of the leaves tomorrow for you to exam. We ate the round Asian pear and that’s where the seed came from. It does have fat leaves and long leaves. It has a nice looking fruit even when the fruit are still young. Last year, the neck was a Bosc pear shape and the color was more brownish. This year, it changed its color and the fruit got fatter. It likely fruit earlier this year and enjoy more sun and that could be the reason why the color changed. In addition, it’s in the 2nd year of fruiting and that may change the characteristic of the fruit.
Yeah, it does have some reference to Ya Li Pear.
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I missed the part about it being from seed. It has many similarities to ya li. Ya li pollen may have been involved. It looks very close to it. Wolf river apple seedlings look like wolf river most of the time so i would not rule out a seedling having a dominant parent.
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Here are the pictures of more leaves. This included the recently grafted tree using an apple root stock.
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Clarkinks, you have a Ya Li. It’s still your top pear of choice?
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Ya li is a good pear. It is not my very favorite but i wouldn’t want to do without it.
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