There is evidence of the pear being used as a food since prehistoric times. Many traces of it have been found in Swiss lake-dwellings and the word "pear" occurs in Celtic languages. There is even a recipe for a spiced, stewed-pear patina (or souffle) in the Roman cookbook attributed to Apicius.
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| Photo: USDA Keith Weller |
The images below are of a cross section of a pear and were captured using a high school biological microscope. The cross section of pear prepared slide is part of the Fruit and Flower Slide Kit.
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| Cross section of a pear captured under the microscope at 40x magnification. |
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| Cross section of a pear captured under the microscope at 100x magnification. |
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| Cross section of a pear captured under the microscope at 400x magnification. |