Isn't this to be found in a text-book?
I'm sorry I can't help, but I haven't heard of a 'bostic pear'.

Google doesn't recognise bostic pears either. Sorry - have to do your own homework! ;-)

I don't know of a bostic pear either... and neither, it seems, does Google.

Snap, Beattie...

Snap, Bamboo! Great minds think alike! I have the impression we're quite alike in many ways. I grew up in North London.....

Oo er, foreign country as far as I'm concerned - I grew up in south east London, thank the lord I don't live that side any more, now in West London - but I still have that awful accent, not like West or North Londoners...

LOL - unalike! unalike!!

London's weird - I suspect its easier to move to Surrey or Scotland than it is to go from one side of London to another - I remember feeling like an alien and very uncomfortable when I first moved over here! Don't mean we're unalike really though, Beattie, after all, great minds, lol.

You're right about the two sides of London! South of the river still seems like very alien territory to me if / when I go back. What, no tube?! (Then, anyway)

There is - but only in Wimbledon, Balham, Merton so not very extensive, that's for sure. Poor tequila, probably thinks we're saying something useful to him/her whenever a notification arrives...

LOL! Whoops, now I feel guilty! Sorry Tequila, we've highjacked your thread to talk about London. There's no justice....

Perhaps bostic pears have an official name that we might recognise? If so, try again, or try Google, which is what we'd probably have to do anyway. ;-)

Never heard of Bostic pear either???

Maybe Tug might know??

surely if its a plant then the life cycle is relatively simple.
seed germinates.
period of growth and development.
flower formation
pollination
fertilization
fruit set
fruit development
fruit ripening
fruit dispersal [probably by an animal eating it and egesting the seed]
seed deposited in some natural fertilizer.

back to the beginning
hope this helps.

a proper id would help however.

Sorry, Spritz, but I've never heard of a bostic pear, either!

Tequila, could you double check the spelling, and maybe give us a scientific name? It's hard to get info without knowing what you are talking about. If the name comes from a teacher's assignment, you might want to double check the name with the teacher. Seaburngirl has the general outline, but a proper ID would let us give more detailed info.

More detailed, Tug? I reckon Seaburngirl's about cracked it, lol

oh it could be so much more detailed bamboo, inhibitors/dormancy breakers etc :o))) I did a 3 month module on germination at uni. Now that was a cause of brain ache.

I was thinking of Tequila's "that a first grade student would understand" really.

yep me too thats why I gave a skeleton outline. I remember growing beans in jam jars when little and watching root then shoot then leaf formation. Guess that got me interested in biology.

Well, I wouldn't go into biochemistry, so much--not least because it's been too many decades since my last college class! But it might be useful to say things like, "in spring", "in fall", and "after several years". Rather than a nebulous, telegraphic, research guide. There are so many things called "pear", from Chayote (vegetable pear), to Avocado (alligator pear).