Double Williams
Dessert · Pear · Pyrus communis L. · 1 accession
A tetraploid. A sport of Williams Bon Chretien received by the National Fruit Trials in 1958 from the John Innes Horticultural Institution, Hertfordshire.Fruits are very juicy and sweet with a strong musky flavour.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Flowering
- 25th April (10%) · 30th April (full) · 8th May (petal fall)
NFC characterisation
- Size
- small/small-medium/medium/medium-large/large
- Type
- Dessert
- Shape
- conical/pyriform
- Russet
- medium
- Weight
- 194.00 g
- Over colour
- orange-red/pink
- Stalk angle
- straight/oblique
- Stalk curve
- weak
- Eye aperture
- open/half open
- Flesh colour
- white/yellow
- Stalk length
- medium-long mm
- Ground colour
- yellow
- Russet percent
- 26-50%
- Stalk thickness
- thick
- Over colour amount
- absent/very low
Source · National Fruit Collection
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