Barrone de Mello
Dessert · Pear · Pyrus communis L. · 1 accession
Said to have been raised in about 1830 by Van Mons, Belgium. Fruits have greenish white, melting flesh with a delicious perfumed flavour.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Flowering
- 16th April (10%) · 21st April (full) · 3rd May (petal fall)
NFC characterisation
- Size
- medium
- Type
- Dessert
- Shape
- ovoid/conical
- Russet
- very high
- Weight
- 166.00 g
- Over colour
- none
- Stalk angle
- straight/oblique
- Stalk curve
- absent/very weak
- Eye aperture
- open
- Flesh colour
- cream/green
- Stalk length
- medium mm
- Ground colour
- green-yellow
- Russet percent
- 76-100%
- Stalk thickness
- medium-thick
- Over colour amount
- absent
Source · National Fruit Collection
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