Pyrus spinosa | BotanAI

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Pyrus spinosa, photographed by David Delon — fig. a David Delon, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-05-20 / obs. 199177243

Pyrus spinosa, photographed by Quentin Groom — fig. b Quentin Groom, CC0 1.0 / obs. 197840575

Pyrus spinosa, photographed by Francesco Santoro — fig. c Francesco Santoro, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 154686595

Pyrus spinosa, photographed by viridian — fig. d viridian, CC0 1.0 / obs. 76132999

Pyrus spinosa, photographed by Julien Renoult — fig. e Julien Renoult, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 65426525

Pyrus spinosa, photographed by Grzegorz Grzejszczak — fig. f Grzegorz Grzejszczak, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 54892150

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Native range 12 botanical countries

Native distribution of Pyrus spinosa, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows. Regions too small to draw at this scale are marked with a dot.

Region	TDWG code	Continent
Albania	ALB	EUROPE
Bulgaria	BUL
Corse	COR
France	FRA
Greece	GRC
Italy	ITA
NW. Balkan Pen.	YUG
Sardegna	SAR
Sicilia	SIC
Spain	SPA
Türkiye-in-Europe	TUE
Türkiye	TUR	ASIA-TEMPERATE

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Also published as 51 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

Crataegus amygdaliformis (Vill.) Chalon
Malus heterophylla Spach
Pyrus amygdaliformis Vill.
Pyrus amygdaliformis f. triloba (Bornm.) Diap.
Pyrus amygdaliformis subvar. parviflora (Desf.) Nyman
Pyrus amygdaliformis unranked castrovillarensis N.Terracc.
Pyrus amygdaliformis unranked crassipes N.Terracc.
Pyrus amygdaliformis unranked inaequalis N.Terracc.
Pyrus amygdaliformis unranked latifolius N.Terracc.
Pyrus amygdaliformis var. cuneifolia Diap.
Pyrus amygdaliformis var. cuneifolia Bean
Pyrus amygdaliformis var. eriopleura (Rchb.) Nyman
Pyrus amygdaliformis var. heterophylla (Spach) Dippel
Pyrus amygdaliformis var. lanceolata Diap.
Pyrus amygdaliformis var. lobata (Decne.) Koehne
Pyrus amygdaliformis var. microphylla (Decne.) Diap.
Pyrus amygdaliformis var. oblongifolia (Spach) Nyman
Pyrus amygdaliformis var. parviflora (Desf.) Hayek
Pyrus amygdaliformis var. persica (Pers.) Bornm.
Pyrus amygdaliformis var. sinaica (Dum.Cours.) Diap.
Pyrus amygdaliformis var. triloba Bornm.
Pyrus amygdaliformis var. verrucosa N.Terracc.
Pyrus amygdaloides Link
Pyrus communis subsp. amygdaliformis (Vill.) Braun-Blanq.

and 27 more.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

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