Beurre Bedford
Dessert · Pear · Pyrus communis L. · 1 accession
Raised in 1902 by Laxton Bros.., Bedford. Introduced in 1921. Fruits have white, firm, coarse, juicy flesh with a sweet, subacid flavour.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Flowering
- 25th April (10%) · 29th April (full) · 7th May (petal fall)
NFC characterisation
- Size
- medium-large
- Type
- Dessert
- Shape
- conical/flask
- Russet
- low
- Weight
- 215.00 g
- Over colour
- orange
- Stalk angle
- oblique/right angle
- Stalk curve
- very weak
- Eye aperture
- open
- Flesh colour
- cream/yellow
- Stalk length
- long-very long mm
- Ground colour
- yellow
- Russet percent
- 1-25%
- Stalk thickness
- medium
- Over colour amount
- low
Source · National Fruit Collection
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