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

some experts say the Bradford pear can have a negative impact as it crowds out other plant and tree species native to Tennessee. In undeveloped land and forested areas where they are left to ...

After more than eight years of organizing and planning, the $3 million landscaping project for the Fourth Street-U.S. Highway ...

A Bradford pear tree in bloom is a sure sign that springtime is in the air. You may have noticed the trees by the delicate white flowers they carry ... growing rapidly and outperforming native plants.

Both Latin and common names for plants are often descriptive, offering clues about the way a plant grows, the color of the ...

(WJHL) — One of the first signs of spring is the white flowers ... of other native plants and animal life. If the study were to eventually lead to a ban on selling the tree in Tennessee, Valk ...

It can be very abundant in old fields," said Clemson University. ∎ A flowering cultivar of Pyrus calleryana, a tree native to Asia. ∎ They are commonly planted as ornamental trees in South ...

can be found throughout Knoxville and East Tennessee. Introduced to the United States from several Asian countries starting in the early 1900s, the white-flowered ornamental trees were once a ...