Double de Guerre
Culinary · Pear · Pyrus communis L. · 1 accession
Introduced to the UK in 1835 by Mr Stoeffels, Mechlin, Belgium. Fruits have yellow, firm, slightly acid flesh. A good cooking pear.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Flowering
- 30th April (10%) · 4th May (full) · 13th May (petal fall)
NFC characterisation
- Size
- medium-large
- Type
- Culinary
- Shape
- pyriform/flask
- Russet
- very high
- Weight
- 204.00 g
- Over colour
- orange/red/dark red
- Stalk angle
- oblique
- Stalk curve
- absent/very weak
- Eye aperture
- open
- Flesh colour
- white/yellow
- Stalk length
- medium mm
- Ground colour
- green-yellow
- Russet percent
- 76-100%
- Stalk thickness
- medium-thick
- Over colour amount
- medium
Source · National Fruit Collection
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