Table 3.

Lowest temperature tested (°F.) that did not result in severe injury of stem tissue of Pyrus taxa 1/.

TaxaDate tested
10/2211/1401/14
Pyrus calleryana
‘Aristocrat’+ 6.8-4.0-32.8
‘Autumn Blaze’+ 6.8-4.0-29.2
‘Bradford’+24.8+ 3.2-14.8
‘Capital’+21.2-7.6-18.4
‘Chanticleer’+ 3.2-7.6-22.0
‘Redspire’+17.6+ 3.2-25.6
‘White House’+21.2+ 3.2-22.0
Pyrus calleryana fauriei+14.0-4.0-25.6
Pyrus Regelii ‘Angel Wing’+14.0-14.8-32.8
  • 1/ Pellett, Harold and Steve McNamara. 1991. Landscape Plant News 2(1):4-5)