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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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