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Dessert · Pear · Pyrus communis L. · 1 accession
Raised by Rivers at Sawbridgeworth. First catalogued in 1881. Fruits have tender, greenish white, juicy flesh with a subacid to astringent flavour.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Flowering
- 21st April (10%) · 25th April (full) · 6th May (petal fall)
NFC characterisation
- Size
- small-medium
- Type
- Dessert
- Shape
- conical/pyriform
- Russet
- low
- Weight
- 99.00 g
- Over colour
- orange/pink
- Stalk angle
- oblique
- Stalk curve
- absent/very weak
- Eye aperture
- half open
- Flesh colour
- white
- Stalk length
- medium mm
- Ground colour
- green-yellow
- Russet percent
- 1-25%
- Stalk thickness
- medium-thick
- Over colour amount
- absent/very low
Source · National Fruit Collection
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