Sweetly scented flowers and edible fruit in one. This showy, dense tree displays, at an early age, attractive orange-red "trumpet style" flowers from late Summer-Fall.
The liqueur Anisette added to cold water on a hot summer's day makes a refreshing drink. Its flavor has similarities with some other spices, such as fennel and liquorice...
Although the early spring flowers are beautiful and the fruit is attractive, the Pyrus communis is normally grown only for its fruit crop and not as an ornamental.