Abbe Fetel
Dessert · Pear · Pyrus communis L. · 1 accession
Raised in about 1869 by Fetel in France. Introduced in 1874. Fruits have white, tender, melting juicy flesh with a very sweet, scented flavour.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Flowering
- 20th April (10%) · 25th April (full) · 4th May (petal fall)
NFC characterisation
- Size
- small-medium
- Type
- Dessert
- Shape
- flask
- Russet
- high
- Weight
- 133.00 g
- Over colour
- none
- Stalk angle
- oblique
- Stalk curve
- very weak
- Eye aperture
- open
- Flesh colour
- white
- Stalk length
- medium-long mm
- Ground colour
- yellow
- Russet percent
- 51-75%
- Stalk thickness
- medium-thick
- Over colour amount
- absent
Source · National Fruit Collection
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