Pyrus boissieriana

Pyrus boissieriana
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Eudicots
(unranked): Rosids
Order: Rosales
Family: Rosaceae
Genus: Pyrus
Species: P. boissieriana
Binomial name
Pyrus boissieriana
Buhse

Pyrus boissieriana, the "Boissier Pear", is a species of Pyrus - pear native to the Kopet Dag region on the Turkmenistan and Iranian border.[1]

Pyrus boissieriana is a regional deciduous tree in the woodland which also has many different fruit trees, shrubs, and vines valuable for human use. It is named after botanist Pierre Edmond Boissier.

  1. ↑ "Kopet Dag woodlands and forest steppe". Terrestrial Ecoregions. World Wildlife Fund.


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