Plymouth pear  (Pyrus cordata)

The plant is restricted to Western Europe with populations in France, particularly Brittany, and the north-western regions of Spain and Portugal. In Britain it is found on only two wild sites together with some transplanted trees within the city of Plymouth in Devon and near Truro in Cornwall.

Although the UK population survives in hedgerows, it is thought originally to have been a component of mixed deciduous woodland and, in Brittany, the plant still occurs in this habitat.