A foul fish-smelling odor has descended on the St. Louis region, and local fish fries aren't to blame. Countless Bradford pear, or Callery pear, trees across the area have started to bud, with some ...

You can't miss the sight of those white-flowered trees each spring - or their unpleasant smell either. Here's why they seem to be everywhere.

She noted that trees like the “straight” parent ... tree’s undesirable thorns and vulnerability to certain pests. The Bradford pear tree was the most promising cultivar developed at the ...

Let me back up and explain. Ornamental pear trees (many of you call them Bradford pears) have one of the worst branching habits of any tree ever released in the trade. This tree has a number of ...

“They crowd out a lot of native species that are needed for other insects and ... the 2025 Callery Pear buyback program. On top of its successful launch in 2019, 630 trees were given away ...