Pear

The common pear is native to central and eastern Europe and western Asia, and is the species from which most orchard pears in Europe, North America and Australia come. Cunningham calls it feminine, with Venus and water, and gives the powers of lust and love. He says the fruit is used in love spells and eaten to induce arousal, that pear wood makes fine wands, and that Witches once danced beneath pear trees. Kynes gives it air, earth and water, the planets Jupiter, Moon, Sun and Venus, and the deities Aphrodite, Apollo, Athena, Helios, Hera, Juno, Minerva, Pomona and Venus. She records that Homer called it the fruit of the gods, and that deities were believed to live in pear trees in the North Caucasus. Cunningham marks the seed X in large amounts.