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t1_jdfjtm4 wrote

They are incredibly invasive too, and an ecological scourge crowding out native trees that benefit wildlife.

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t1_jdhznyu wrote

My partner and I were just driving along the highway and saying Bradford pear trees really highlight the issue with invasives because they bloom do early they're easy to distinguish. And there are so many of them.

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t1_jdh9205 wrote

In a way also kind of native (ish) since they were hybridized here in MD.

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t1_jdi1kyw wrote

Nah not really. The trees that they hybridized from were invasive too.

That’s like how there’s places in North America where there are wild pigs that are hybrids of feral domestic swine and Russian boars. Still invasive, just with local flair.

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