Cheltenham Cross
Dessert · Pear · Pyrus communis L. · 1 accession
Raised in 1921 by G.T. Spinks at Long Ashton Research Station, Bristol. Introduced in 1947. Fruits have soft, coarse, gritty, juicy flesh with a very sweet flavour
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Flowering
- 18th April (10%) · 23rd April (full) · 2nd May (petal fall)
NFC characterisation
- Size
- medium
- Type
- Dessert
- Shape
- pyriform
- Russet
- low
- Weight
- 138.00 g
- Over colour
- orange
- Stalk angle
- straight/oblique
- Stalk curve
- very weak
- Eye aperture
- open
- Flesh colour
- white/cream
- Stalk length
- medium mm
- Ground colour
- yellow
- Russet percent
- 1-25%
- Stalk thickness
- medium
- Over colour amount
- very low
Source · National Fruit Collection
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