Belle de Soignies
Dessert · Pear · Pyrus communis L. · 1 accession
Received by the National Fruit Trials in 1951 from Station de Recherches, Ghent, Belgium. Fruits have soft, tender, rather coarse, juicy flesh with a sweet flavour.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Flowering
- 21st April (10%) · 26th April (full) · 10th May (petal fall)
NFC characterisation
- Size
- medium-large
- Type
- Dessert
- Shape
- quince/flask
- Russet
- very high
- Weight
- 209.00 g
- Over colour
- orange/red
- Stalk angle
- oblique
- Stalk curve
- absent
- Eye aperture
- open
- Flesh colour
- white/yellow
- Stalk length
- long mm
- Ground colour
- green-yellow
- Russet percent
- 76-100%
- Stalk thickness
- medium-thick/thick
- Over colour amount
- very low
Source · National Fruit Collection
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