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| | 21 Pyrus serotina Rehd (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08) |
 | | The trees of Pyrus serotina Rehd, are found throughout the mid-hill region. |
 | | A tall thorny and deciduous tree, 8 to 10 metre in height; bark, rough, dark brown to fl; the girth of the trunk is 80.1 cm; thorns arise from leaf axils, 4.7 cm long, less numerous than those of Pyrus pashia Buch. |
 | | Leaves, stipulate, alternate, serrate, acuminate, ovate, petiolate (petiole about 10 mm long), with reticulate venation; leaves still delicate and pubescent at flowering in spite of their having attained full size; the leaves are borne laterally on, one-year-old shoots. |
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