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Dessert · Pear · Pyrus communis L. · 1 accession
Raised by the United States Department of Agriculture, Beltsville, Maryland, USA. Introduced for trial in 1960. Fruits have good quality, juicy, sweet flesh with an aromatic flavour.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Flowering
- 20th April (10%) · 25th April (full) · 3rd May (petal fall)
NFC characterisation
- Size
- medium-large
- Type
- Dessert
- Shape
- pyriform/flask
- Russet
- low
- Weight
- 166.00 g
- Over colour
- orange-red
- Stalk angle
- straight/oblique
- Stalk curve
- absent/very weak
- Eye aperture
- open
- Flesh colour
- white
- Stalk length
- medium mm
- Ground colour
- yellow
- Russet percent
- 1-25%
- Stalk thickness
- medium-thick
- Over colour amount
- low
Source · National Fruit Collection
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