Andre Desportes
Dessert · Pear · Pyrus communis L. · 1 accession
Raised by Andre Leroy at Angers, France in 1854. Thought to be open-pollinated Williams. Fruits have white, juicy flesh with a sweet and fair flavour.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Flowering
- 20th April (10%) · 25th April (full) · 8th May (petal fall)
NFC characterisation
- Size
- small
- Type
- Dessert
- Shape
- conical/pyriform
- Russet
- low
- Weight
- 71.00 g
- Over colour
- orange/brown
- Stalk angle
- straight/oblique
- Stalk curve
- weak-medium
- Eye aperture
- half open
- Flesh colour
- white/cream
- Stalk length
- medium mm
- Ground colour
- green-yellow
- Russet percent
- 1-25%
- Stalk thickness
- medium/medium-thick
- Over colour amount
- low
Source · National Fruit Collection
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