Doctor Stark
Dessert · Pear · Pyrus communis L. · 1 accession
Received by the National Fruit Trials in 1944 from Mr R. Staward, Ware Park Gardens, Hertfordshire. Fruits have soft, coarse, very gritty, very juicy flesh with a sweet, aromatic flavour.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Flowering
- 23rd April (10%) · 27th April (full) · 5th May (petal fall)
NFC characterisation
- Size
- medium
- Type
- Dessert
- Shape
- conical/pyriform
- Russet
- high/very high
- Weight
- 172.00 g
- Over colour
- pink
- Stalk angle
- oblique
- Stalk curve
- absent
- Eye aperture
- open
- Flesh colour
- white
- Stalk length
- short mm
- Ground colour
- green-yellow
- Russet percent
- 51-100%
- Stalk thickness
- thick-very thick
- Over colour amount
- absent/very low
Source · National Fruit Collection
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