Beurre Rance
Culinary/Dessert · Pear · Pyrus communis L. · 1 accession
Raised in about 1762 by Abbe Hardenpont of Mons, Belgium. Fruits have greenish white, melting, very juicy flesh with a rich and vinous flavour.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Flowering
- 22nd April (10%) · 27th April (full) · 8th May (petal fall)
NFC characterisation
- Size
- medium
- Type
- Culinary/Dessert
- Shape
- conical/pyriform
- Russet
- low/medium
- Weight
- 126.00 g
- Over colour
- brown
- Stalk angle
- straight/oblique
- Stalk curve
- weak-medium
- Eye aperture
- open
- Flesh colour
- white/green
- Stalk length
- long-very long mm
- Ground colour
- green/green-yellow
- Russet percent
- 1-50%
- Stalk thickness
- medium-thick
- Over colour amount
- low-medium
Source · National Fruit Collection
Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
View on the NFC site