Pears - Addition Postage 10¢

Pears 10-cent Postage Stamp

📌 Originally issued in 2016 in a coil format, the U.S. Postal Service issues Pears, a new ten-cent definitive stamp featuring an illustration of two brilliantly red pears in sheets of 20.

📌 Pears (genus Pyrus) are one of the world's oldest cultivated fruits. They grow on medium-sized, long-lived, flowering trees that generally produce fruit in their fourth to sixth year of growth. Thousands of varieties - in hues of green, yellow, red, and brown - are grown throughout the world.

📌 Pear trees, like apple trees, can surprise their growers with "sport" branches (also referred to as spontaneous mutations) that bear fruit differing in appearance from the anticipated produce. Thus, a tree producing green pears may spontaneously sport a branch of red pears. Other red pears are the result of hybridizing, or crossbreeding two different varieties.

📌 Pears are among the most popular fruits in the world, and for good reasons. These low-calorie treats provide a good source of fiber, potassium, and vitamin C. Great snacks eaten fresh out of hand, and perhaps over a sink so the juice drips there, pears can be poached, baked, sliced into salads, and star on a cheese plate.