Beurre Dumont
Dessert · Pear · Pyrus communis L. · 1 accession
Raised by M. Joseph Dumont, gardener to Baron de Joigny, in Belgium. It first fruited in 1833. Fruits have white, very fine-grained, melting flesh with a sweet and perfumed flavour. Reputed to be an excellent pear.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Flowering
- 20th April (10%) · 26th April (full) · 5th May (petal fall)
NFC characterisation
- Size
- medium
- Type
- Dessert
- Shape
- ovoid/conical
- Russet
- high/very high
- Weight
- 163.00 g
- Over colour
- red
- Stalk angle
- oblique
- Stalk curve
- absent
- Eye aperture
- open
- Flesh colour
- white/cream
- Stalk length
- medium mm
- Ground colour
- yellow
- Russet percent
- 51-100%
- Stalk thickness
- medium-thick/thick
- Over colour amount
- absent/very low
Source · National Fruit Collection
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