Beginning this coming week in Greater Columbus, we should start to see the full bloom of one of the most widely planted flowering trees, the Callery pear. The billowy white flowers of this popular and ...

An initiative by the Kettering Tree Committee wants to remove the trees from city-owned land and replace them with native ...

Columbia, SC (WLTX) - The Bradford pear not only smells bad, it also may be bad for our ecosystem. The Bradford pear stands out in late winter and early spring, but even though the tree produces ...

Indiana is taking decisive action to curb the spread of the Callery pear, a popular but destructive invasive tree species ...

A Bradford pear tree can be a beautiful sight to behold. But that's about where its usefulness ends. The Bradford pear, also known as the Callery pear, can create unpleasant smells and, more ...

Spring, a beautiful time of year, especially as trees are blooming. There is one tree in particular that outshines others, the callery pear. You see its white flowers everywhere. Many mistakenly think ...

At first glance, you might just think those trees covered in little white blossoms are a welcome sign of spring. Then you catch a whiff of that fishy odor and quickly change your mind when you realize ...

Bradford pear trees were once popular but now considered an invasive species. They smell bad and harm native ecosystems. Why don't we get rid of them?

Matt Dear, a natural resource technician for Johnson County Park and Recreation District, kills an ornamental pear tree on park property. Nearly 1,000 people who chop down a Bradford or other Callery ...