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View Larger Version | A survivor in its native Asia, a wild Callery pear tree photographed in 1917 in China thrived on a parched mountain (bottom). The first ornamental variety of the tree marketed in the United States was so successful that more followed, leading to hybridization and wild thickets of the tree (top).
Credit: (Bottom) Frank N. Meyer Typescript/Special Collections/National Agricultural Library; (Top) David J. Moorhead, University of Georgia/Bugwood.org
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