Beurre Mortillet
Dessert · Pear · Pyrus communis L. · 1 accession
Raised before 1875 by M. Fougere at St. Priest (Isere), France. It was named after the famous French pomologist Grenoble. Fruits have pale yellow, firm, juicy flesh with a sweet flavour.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Flowering
- 25th April (10%) · 30th April (full) · 8th May (petal fall)
NFC characterisation
- Size
- medium-large
- Type
- Dessert
- Shape
- conical/pyriform
- Russet
- low
- Weight
- 255.00 g
- Over colour
- orange-red
- Stalk angle
- oblique
- Stalk curve
- absent
- Eye aperture
- half open
- Flesh colour
- white/cream
- Stalk length
- very short-short mm
- Ground colour
- yellow
- Russet percent
- 1-25%
- Stalk thickness
- thick
- Over colour amount
- low-medium
Source · National Fruit Collection
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