Feedback request: Pyrus cordata (35276)

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Specimen #349568

Taxon:	Rosaceae: Pyrus cordata Desv. ("Plymouth Pear")
Filed in taxon folder:	Rosaceae: Pyrus cordata Desv. ("Plymouth Pear")
Collected by:	Rev. Augustin Ley
Collection date:	29/8/1908
Locality:	Great Britain, VC31 Huntingdonshire, Ellington, TL17, brick field
ex herb:	Rev. Augustin Ley
Institution:	University of Birmingham (BIRM)
Image:
fruits/flowers:	no flowers
notes:	branches thorny; serration of cordata

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Documented by oldnick on 11^th December 2012.

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oldnick wrote

Another new county for this species would suggest possible cultivation; except that 'brick field' sounds more like bird-sown! Time to re-visit the literature on the species?