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- Coverage is exactly "near Nan chang yen, Hupeh, China"
Pyrus calleryana. Dwarf wild Calleryana pears. neg. No. 13267.
Description: From from Meyer's South China Exploration typescript: Pyrus calleryana. Dwarf wild Calleryana pears, only a few feet high, growing in sterile, decomposed porphyrious rock on a badly eroded mountain top, elevation c.a. 2,000 ft. a.s. This photo…
Date: 1917-03-31
Pyrus calleryana. Neg. No. 13264.
Description: From from Meyer's South China Exploration typescript: Pyrus calleryana. A fairly large specimen of a Calleryana pear, found growing brotherly together with a pine tree, Pinus massoniana. Very few trees find pine trees congenial mates, but this…
Date: 1917-03-31