Cayuga
Dessert · Pear · Pyrus communis L. · 1 accession
Raised in 1906 by U.P. Hedrick at New York State Agricultural Experiment Station, USA. Introduced in 1920. Fruits have firm, yellow, juicy, sweet flesh with a sweet, aromatic flavour.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Flowering
- 24th April (10%) · 30th April (full) · 10th May (petal fall)
NFC characterisation
- Size
- medium-large
- Type
- Dessert
- Shape
- conical
- Russet
- low
- Weight
- 224.00 g
- Over colour
- red
- Stalk angle
- oblique
- Stalk curve
- absent
- Eye aperture
- closed
- Flesh colour
- white
- Stalk length
- medium mm
- Ground colour
- green-yellow
- Russet percent
- 1-25%
- Stalk thickness
- thick
- Over colour amount
- low-medium
Source · National Fruit Collection
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