The "Chanticleer" Callery Pear was selected as the "Urban Tree of the Year" in 2005 by trade arborist magazine City Trees for its unique combination of resistance to blight and limb breakage ...

Narrow branch angles prompted the breeding and release of many more cultivars such as ‘Cleveland Select’, ’Chanticleer’ and ‘Aristocrat’. In the past, Bradford pear was almost sterile and produced ...

But what is a Chanticleer? The name comes from a rooster character in a Middle Age fable that was eventually widely popularized in "The Canterbury Tales," Geoffrey Chaucer's 14th century short ...