Second bloom on pear tree?

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I have a red anjou pear tree that bloomed out weeks ago, maybe even a month. It has fruit on it the size of a dime. I took a ride in back and it has flowers on these long stems. Is this normal? What is going on with this tree?
 

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Cool. Is it just one branch or the whole tree? Looks like some sort of genetic mutation. I would let it go and see how it turns out. Might be something interesting or useful.
 
It is over the whole tree but sparse. Maybe about 20 of these flowers. Nothing like the first bloom when the whole tree was blossoms.
 
Did you have a stretch of 90s in early May followed by a stretch of much cooler weather?

One issue with late blossoms is that fireblight is much more active later in the spring.
 
It’s not what I would call common, but I see it frequently. Last fall I had several different apple trees with blooms in November. There is one variety of apple I have read about that it is common to see blossoms twice in the spring. I can’t recall the variety, but I read it on the BHCF website.
 
Did you have a stretch of 90s in early May followed by a stretch of much cooler weather?

One issue with late blossoms is that fireblight is much more active later in the spring.
I would say that was exactly happened this year. Just when you thought it was warming up it was in the 40s again.
 
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