Carrick
Dessert · Pear · Pyrus communis L. · 1 accession
Raised in 1934 by Brooks D. Drain and Lawson M. Safley at Tennessee Agricultural Experimental Station, USA. Introduced in 1957. Fruits have yellow, firm, tender, juicy, crisp flesh with a sweet subacid flavour.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Flowering
- 3rd April (10%) · 12th April (full) · 24th April (petal fall)
NFC characterisation
- Size
- medium-large
- Type
- Dessert
- Shape
- ovoid/conical
- Russet
- medium
- Weight
- 183.00 g
- Over colour
- orange-red
- Stalk angle
- straight/oblique
- Stalk curve
- absent
- Eye aperture
- half open/closed
- Flesh colour
- white/yellow
- Stalk length
- medium mm
- Ground colour
- yellow
- Russet percent
- 26-50%
- Stalk thickness
- medium-thick
- Over colour amount
- medium
Source · National Fruit Collection
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