Beurre Giffard
Dessert · Pear · Pyrus communis L. · 1 accession
Discovered in 1825 by M. Nicolas Giffard growing wild near Angers, France. Fruits have white, melting, very juicy flesh with a sweet flavour.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Flowering
- 18th April (10%) · 23rd April (full) · 3rd May (petal fall)
NFC characterisation
- Size
- medium
- Type
- Dessert
- Shape
- conical/pyriform
- Russet
- low
- Weight
- 96.00 g
- Over colour
- brown
- Stalk angle
- straight/oblique
- Stalk curve
- absent
- Eye aperture
- open
- Flesh colour
- white/cream
- Stalk length
- short-medium mm
- Ground colour
- green-yellow/yellow
- Russet percent
- 1-25%
- Stalk thickness
- medium-thick
- Over colour amount
- medium
Source · National Fruit Collection
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