Beurre Francois
Dessert · Pear · Pyrus communis L. · 1 accession
Received by the National Fruit Trials in 1951 from Station de Recherches, Ghent, Belgium. Fruits have soft, coarse, gritty, juicy flesh with a sweet and slightly perfumed flavour.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Flowering
- 15th April (10%) · 22nd April (full) · 30th April (petal fall)
NFC characterisation
- Size
- small
- Type
- Dessert
- Shape
- ovoid/flask
- Russet
- high
- Weight
- 85.00 g
- Over colour
- orange/red
- Stalk angle
- straight/oblique
- Stalk curve
- absent
- Eye aperture
- open
- Flesh colour
- white/cream
- Stalk length
- short-medium mm
- Ground colour
- green-yellow
- Russet percent
- 51-75%
- Stalk thickness
- medium-thick
- Over colour amount
- very low
Source · National Fruit Collection
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