Shipova inter-specific trees
Pyrus communis x Sorbus aria - Self-fertility: Self-fertile
- Flowering group: 4
Shipova is a very unusual hybrid pear / whitebeam, also known as the Bollwyller Pear.
The flowers are large by Sorbus standards but look more like Sorbus flowers than pear blossom. They appear in May - much later than pear blossom.
The fruits are borne in clusters, quite reminscent of whitebeam berries, but they are pear-like and have a pleasant flavour.
The leaves also show characteristics of both species, their size and the leaf undersides being similar to those of whitebeams - and from a distance the tree looks much more like a whitebeam than a pear tree.
Shipova inter-specific trees for sale
Bare-root
BR11-year bare-root treePyrus c. Kirchensaller rootstock£37.50
Large tree
(3m-5m after 10 years)
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Shipova characteristics
- Gardening skillAverage
- Self-fertilitySelf-fertile
- Flowering group4
- Pollinating othersPoor
- Climate suitabilityTemperate climates
- CroppingGood
- Keeping (of fruit)1 week
- Food usesEating fresh
- Country of originFrance
- Period of origin1600 - 1649
- Blossom colourWhite
- Fruit colourGoldOrangeYellow / Orange
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More about inter-specific trees
New fruit varieties are usually developed by crossing varieties of the same species. However new varieties can also arise from inter-breeding between varieties of different (but related) species. These are known as hybrid or inter-specific varieties.
Hybridisation is particularly common in stone fruits such as plums, cherries, and apricots. Indeed the common plum (Prunus domestica) is thought to be natural hybrid between a sloe (Prunus spinosa) and a cherry-plum (Prunus cerasifera). Although these days most hybrids are developed in university-led research programmes, they are not genetically modified (GMOs) - the process is still based on taking pollen from one variety and pollinating another in the hope of producing a new variety with the desired mix of characteristics.
Apricots are a particular focus in the development of new inter-specific fruit varieties because they naturally produce larger fruits than cherries or plums, and will easily cross-pollinate with them.
