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The Plymouth pear is smaller than its more common relative and grows as a hedgerow tree. It may be distinguished from the common wild pear by purplish twigs (instead of grey-brown) and, in the words of its discoverer T. R. Archer Briggs, 'plentifully furnished with spines'.
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