Beurre Sterckmans
Dessert · Pear · Pyrus communis L. · 1 accession
Raised by M. Sterckmans at Louvain, Belgium before 1820. First brought to notice by Dr Van Mons. Fruits have yellowish white, juicy flesh with a sweet and highly perfumed flavour.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Flowering
- 25th April (10%) · 29th April (full) · 8th May (petal fall)
NFC characterisation
- Size
- medium
- Type
- Dessert
- Shape
- conical/pyriform
- Russet
- low
- Weight
- 175.00 g
- Over colour
- orange-red
- Stalk angle
- oblique
- Stalk curve
- very weak
- Eye aperture
- open
- Flesh colour
- white/yellow
- Stalk length
- medium-long mm
- Ground colour
- green-yellow/yellow
- Russet percent
- 1-25%
- Stalk thickness
- thin-medium
- Over colour amount
- medium
Source · National Fruit Collection
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