Cuttings in 2004 taken to Hood River. There might be some local (PNW) plant material, but there probably isn't any fruit, yet. However, my best guess is that if someone went to the expense of going to China to get scions, they will be propagating for commercial distribution and trying to get their expenses back before the trees get released to anyone else. Not that I see anything wrong with that.

The article is about importing just the fruit and it sounds to me like it is going to very limited distribution. I'd like to try it, but I don't hang out at high end grocery stores and I've never seen it.

I have a small tree growing that I planted from seed. I only got one to grow out of about 30 seeds. Maybe I accidently mixed a apple seed in? I'm planning on taking some cuttings this winter and try grafting to pear rootstock and winter banana apple. Should be interesting to see what I get it a few years.

I sure hope it is a pear I have growing and not a apple. I got the fruit from here -> [url:al13tt9y]http://www.melissas.com/Products/Products/Fragrant-Pear.aspx[/url:al13tt9y] and thought they tasted pretty good. Likely to be much better if not picked unripe and barged over from the Xinjiang region of China.