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Intergeneric
Pome 
Hybrids

Deviant Fruits?
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Intergeneric Hybrids
  • x Sorbopyrus auricularis
    • Pyrus communis x Sorbus aria  (Shipova, etc.)


  • x Pyronia veitchii
    • Pyrus communis x Cydonia oblonga


  • Assorted hybrids between:
    Sorbus, Amelanchier, Aronia, Cotoneaster, Cydonia, Mespilus, Malus and Pyrus


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Pear – Mountain Ash hybrid
x Sorbopyrus auricularis
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J. Decaisne – 1858
Le Jardin Fruitier du Museum
(The Fruit Arboretum of the Natural History Museum)
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x Sorbopyrus auricularis (Knoop) Schneider
Pyrus communis x Sorbus aria
= Pyrus bollwylleriana, P. pollwilleriana
  • First described by Lindley in 1437


  • Decaisne: “The pear of Pollwiller is a remarkable example of the persistence of the characters of a hybrid tree, propagated for three centuries by grafting, and which contradicts everything said on the subject of the disappearance and the degeneration of our ancient varieties of fruit trees.”
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x Sorbopyrus auricularis (Knoop) Schneider
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x Sorbopyrus auricularis (Knoop) Schneider
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x Sorbopyrus auricularis var. bulbiformis (Tatar) C. Schneider
= Pyrus malifolia
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x Sorbopyrus auricularis v. bulbiformis
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x Sorbopyrus auricularis v. bulbiformis
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3 Sorbopyrus types at NCGR
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x Sorbopyrus auricularis?
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x Sorbopyrus auricularis?
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Chromosome Info from Karl Sax, 1929
  • Sorbopyrus auricularis v. bulbiformis
    at Arnold Arboretum came
    from Kew Gardens in England
  • This large fruit clone is triploid
  • Natural back-cross of diploid Sorbopyrus to haploid Pyrus – resulting in 2 sets of Pyrus chromosomes and 1 set of Sorbus
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Pear - Quince hybrid

x Pyronia veitchii

Cydonia oblonga x Pyrus communis
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x Pyronia veitchii
(Cydonia oblonga x Pyrus communis)
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Alfred Rehder – Manual of Cultivated Trees & Shrubs Hardy in North America
  • x Pyronia Veitchii (Trabut) Guillaumin
    Cydonia oblonga x Pyrus communis
  • Origin before 1913
  • (= Cydonia veitchii 'John Seden' Trabut
    Pyrocydonia 'John Seden' Guill.)


  • + Pyronia Danieli (Winkl.) Rehd.
    Graft hybrid C. oblonga + P. communis
    Originated in 1902
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Pyronia
  •  “A hybrid between the Pear and Quince”
  • “Produces abundance  of seedless fruit of some value”
  • “Many new combinations might be made between the relatives of the pear”
  • L. Trabut of Algiers, Algeria
  • Journal of Heredity, 1917


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Trabut 1917:
  • Hybridized by Mr. Veitch of London
  • Trabut received scions from Veitch in 1913
  • First fruits in 1914
  • Abundant fruits in 1915
  • All fruits seedless
  • More like quince than pear




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A Pyronia from Japan
  • Received from I. Shimura
      Tokyo University of Agriculture
  • Pyrus pyrifolia x Cydonia oblonga
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Pome Fruit Genera
Family: Rosaceae
Subfamily: Maloideae (was Pomoideae)
  • Many are Graft Compatible
  • Some may be rarely pollen Compatible?
  • (all have 17 chromosomes)



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Promiscuous Sorbus
  • George Neville Jones, in his 1939 monograph on North American Sorbus in the Journal of the Arnold Arboretum lists:


  • 4 intergeneric hybrids between North American Mountain Ashes (Sorbus) and chokeberries (Aronia)


  • 1 intergeneric hybrid
     between Mountain Ash
    (Sorbus) and Serviceberry
    (Amelanchier)


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Promiscuous Sorbus
  • Mountain Ash – Chokeberry hybrids (Sorbus x Aronia):
  • Sorbus aucuparia
  • S. aucuparia x Aronia arbutifolia = x Sorbaronia hybrida
  • S. aucuparia x Aronia melanocarpa = x Sorbaronia fallax (herbarium samples from Massachusetts and Maine
  • Sorbus americana
  • S. americana x Aronia melanocarpa = x Sorbaronia sorbifolia
    known in cultivation – not from the wild - cultivar ‘Stewart’
  • S. americana x Aronia prunifolia - described by A. Rehder in 1939
  • Sorbus aria
  • S. aria x Aronia melanocarpa = x Sorbaronia dippelii
  • Sorbus decora
  • S. decora x Aronia prunifolia = x Sorbaronia Arsenii (described originally by Bro. Louis Arsène)


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Promiscuous Sorbus
  • Sorbus x Amelanchier:
  • Amelanchier florida x Sorbus scopulina = x Amelosorbus Jackii
    (herbarium samples from Oregon and Idaho)


  • Sorbus x Crataegus:
  • Sorbus aucuparia  x Crataegus sanguinea =
    X Sorbocrataegus ‘Granatnaya’


  • Sorbus x cotoneaster:
  • x Sorbocotoneaster  (received from Uzbekistan)


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x Sorbaronia hybrida ‘Brilliantissima’
 (S. aucuparia x Aronia arbutifolia) IGC 24
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x Sorbaronia dippeli 
(Sorbus aria x Aronia melanocarpa) IGC 23
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 x Amelosorbus jackii Rehder
 (not in NCGR collection)
  • Occurs in the Wallowa and Clearwater Mountains in NE Oregon and NW Idaho.
  • Amelanchier alnifolia x Sorbus scopulina
  • Alfred Rehder described this species in 1925 from plants growing at Arnold Arboretum collected in Idaho.
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Amelosorbus jackii herbarium specimens were collected in NE Oregon and NW Idaho
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 Amelosorbus
  • Samples in OSU herbarium were collected in the 1880s and in early 1900s under the name Pyrus sambucifolia
  • It may still occur in the
    Wallowa Mountains
    2 miles NE of
    Cornucopia, Oregon?


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Hybrids with Medlar – Mespilus germanica
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Graft Hybrid?
  • + Crataegomespilus dardarii
    • Crataegus monogyna + Mespilus germanica
  • Sexual Hybrid
  • x Crataegomespilus grandifolia
    • Crataegus monogyna x Mespilus germanica
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+ Crataegomespilus dardarii   (IGC 37)
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x Crataegomespilus grandifolia (IGC 25)
(Crataegus monogyna x Mespilus germanica)
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Malus x Pyrus? (IGC 38)
(Purported to be Red Delicious x Pyrus sp)
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Malus x Pyrus
‘Fuji’ apple x ‘Oharabeni’ pear
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Oharabeni
Pear at the
Corvallis
Repository
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Sorbpear