Alexandrine Douillard
Dessert · Pear · Pyrus communis L. · 1 accession
Raised by M. Douillard, Nantes, France and first produced fruit in 1849. Fruits have white, fine-grained, juicy flesh with a sweet and perfumed flavour.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Flowering
- 17th April (10%) · 23rd April (full) · 4th May (petal fall)
NFC characterisation
- Size
- large
- Type
- Dessert
- Shape
- pyriform
- Russet
- low/medium
- Weight
- 217.00 g
- Over colour
- orange/brown
- Stalk angle
- straight/oblique
- Stalk curve
- very weak
- Eye aperture
- closed
- Flesh colour
- white/yellow
- Stalk length
- medium mm
- Ground colour
- yellow
- Russet percent
- 1-50%
- Stalk thickness
- medium
- Over colour amount
- very low
Source · National Fruit Collection
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