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Dessert · Pear · Pyrus communis L. · 1 accession

Raised in 1938 at East Malling Research Station, Kent by H.M. Tydeman. Fruits have creamy white, melting, juicy flesh with a rich, sweet flavour.

Material available from the National Fruit Collection.

Flowering
23rd April (10%) · 27th April (full) · 6th May (petal fall)
NFC characterisation
Size
medium
Type
Dessert
Shape
conical
Russet
low
Weight
119.00 g
Over colour
pink
Stalk angle
oblique
Stalk curve
absent
Eye aperture
half open
Flesh colour
cream
Stalk length
medium mm
Ground colour
yellow
Russet percent
1-25%
Stalk thickness
medium-thick
Over colour amount
very low

Source · National Fruit Collection

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