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Bianchettone

Dessert · Pear · Pyrus communis L. · 1 accession

Received by the National Fruit Trials in 1958 from Sicily, Italy. Fruits have coarse, gritty, creamy white., juicy flesh with a rather weak flavour.

Material available from the National Fruit Collection.

Flowering
4th April (10%) · 11th April (full) · 23rd April (petal fall)
NFC characterisation
Size
small
Type
Dessert
Shape
pyriform
Russet
low
Weight
50.00 g
Over colour
orange/brown
Stalk angle
straight/oblique
Stalk curve
very weak
Eye aperture
open
Flesh colour
white/cream
Stalk length
medium/medium-long mm
Ground colour
green-yellow
Russet percent
1-25%
Stalk thickness
medium/medium-thick
Over colour amount
very low/low

Source · National Fruit Collection

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