Bio Diversity Park

Common Name : Wild Pear, Himalayan Pear

Hindi Name : कैनठ, मेहल | Scientific Name : Pyrus pashia
Family : Rosaceae
Uses : The plant is one of the essential under-
utilized species and is revered for its nutritional and medicinal
potential. It has been used for various purposes, particularly as
a herbal medicine, for the treatment of digestive ailments such
The plant is one of the essential under-
utilized species and is revered for its nutritional and medicinal
potential. It has been used for various purposes, particularly as
a herbal medicine, for the treatment of digestive ailments such
The plant is one of the essential under-
utilized species and is revered for its nutritional and medicinal
potential. It has been used for various purposes, particularly as
a herbal medicine, for the treatment of digestive ailments such
The plant is one of the essential under-
utilized species and is revered for its nutritional and medicinal
potential. It has been used for various purposes, particularly as
a herbal medicine, for the treatment of digestive ailments such
The plant is one of the essential under utilized species and is revered for its nutritional and medicinal potential. It has been used for various purposes, particularly as an herbal medicine, for the treatment of digestive ailments such as dyspepsia and dysmenorrhea. The leaves of have been used as a health beverage in the Monpa community of the Tawang district of Arunachal Pradesh, India. In Chinese folk medicine, the branches and leaves have been utilized as anti diarrheal agents. Its flowers are consumed not only as an herbal medicine for lowering blood lipid levels, but also as the most common edible flowers. In the Ayurvedic system, the use of the bark and roots of P. pashia fruits is beneficial for the treatment of sore throat, fever, and peptic and gastric ulcers. The fruit is edible and represents a source of high nutritional value.
Native: Iran to S. Central China and Indo-China
General Description:

Himalayan Pear is a small or medium-sized deciduous tree, found in the Himalayas. It is also cultivated for its fruit. Leaves are ovate to broadly lance-shaped, long-pointed, toothed, hairless and shining. Leaves are 5-10 cm long, those on sucker shoots are often 3-5-lobed. Young leaves are white-woolly. Flowers are 2-2.5 cm across, with white obovate petals with darker veins. Sepal cup is urn-shaped with spreading white-woolly sepals. Fruit is round, 1.3-2.5 cm, dark brown, covered with raised pores. Fruit is edible when half-rotten. Himalayan Pear is found in the Himalayas, from Afghanistan to SW China and Burma, at altitudes of 750-2700 m. The flowering season was observed to extend from the last week of February to the middle of March. The fruits begin to ripen from the first week of November and continue to do so till the last week of December.