Rosaceae family(Pyrus communis)
Rosaceae family
Also known as the European pear, so as not to confuse it with the Chinese or Asian pear, the common pear was probably domesticated first only a few centuries before Christ by the Greeks and Romans. Pears, like apples and quinces, are pomes. Pears have a distinctively granular texture, owing to the presence of isolated sclerenchyma, or stone, cells within the fleshy mesocarp of the fruit. Pears are normally cross-pollinated, though improved cultivars are always asexually propagated via grafting. Quice rootstock is used to confer a dwarfed habit to pear cultivar scions. Most of the pear cultivars today, including the 'Bartlett', 'Bosc', and 'Anjou', descend from old 18th and 19th Century isolates.