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Certeau d'Automne

Culinary · Pear · Pyrus communis L. · 1 accession

Received by the National Fruit Trials in 1948 from Pepinieres Moreau, Rhone, France. Fruits have yellowish-white, rather dry flesh with a sweet, perfumed flavour. A very good cooking pear.

Material available from the National Fruit Collection.

Flowering
24th April (10%) · 28th April (full) · 8th May (petal fall)
NFC characterisation
Size
small-medium
Type
Culinary
Shape
conical/pyriform
Russet
absent/low
Weight
97.00 g
Over colour
orange-red
Stalk angle
straight/oblique
Stalk curve
absent
Eye aperture
open
Flesh colour
white/yellow
Stalk length
long mm
Ground colour
yellow
Russet percent
0-25%
Stalk thickness
thin
Over colour amount
very low/low/low-medium/medium

Source · National Fruit Collection

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