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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

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