EPPO Global Database

Pyrus communis(PYUCO)

Overview
Code created in: 2001-11-12

Basic information
  • EPPO Code: PYUCO
  • Preferred name: Pyrus communis
  • Authority: Linnaeus

Notes

Europe (except northeast) and Mediterranean (except southern). Cultivated as a fruit tree. Introduced in northern Europe, Central Asia, Pakistan, Himalayas, India, Korea, South Africa, North America, Ecuador, Australia (south). This species was formerly considered native to Europe (as above),  but is now considered more likely to have had a cultivated origin in Asia


Other scientific names
Name Authority
Pyrus communis var. sativa de Candolle
Pyrus sativa Lamarck & de Candolle

Common names
Name Language
common pear English
pear English
Birne German
gemeiner Birnbaum German
gewöhnliche Birne German
Kulturbirne German
poirier French
poirier commun French
poirier cultivé French
peral Spanish
peral común Spanish
peral cultivado Spanish
perera Spanish
pero comune Italian
gewone peereboom Dutch
peer Dutch
pereira Portuguese
pereira-comum Portuguese
pereira-mansa Portuguese
päron Swedish
vanlig päronträd Swedish
seiyô-nashi Japanese
セイヨウナシ Japanese
груша домашная Russian
pære Danish
pære Norwegian
päärynä Finnish
armut Turkish
agaseem Hebrew
agas tarbuti Hebrew
אַגָּסִים Hebrew
אַגָּסִ תַּרְבּוּתִי Hebrew
grusza pospolita Polish
nemes körte Hungarian
dardhë Albanian
njache Arabic
peral Aragonese
perera Aragonese
madariondoa Basque
txermena Basque
udareondoa Basque
питомна круша Bulgarian
perer Catalan
perera Catalan
perera cultivada Catalan
xī yáng lí Chinese
西洋梨 Chinese
divlja kruška Croatian
hrušeň obecná Czech
harilik pirnipuu Estonian
päärynä Estonian
pereira Galician
nashpati Hindi
नाशपाती Hindi
서양배 Korean
seo yang bae Korean
mājas bumbiere Latvian
kriaušės Lithuanian
paprastoji kriaušė Lithuanian
pérè Occitan
perèr Occitan
hruška Slovak
hruška Slovene
pea Swahili
груша звичайна Ukrainian
coeden ellyg Welsh