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Abbe Fetel
Dessert pear
Pyrus communis L.
Raised in about 1869 by Fetel in France. Introduced in 1874. Fruits have white, tender, melting juicy flesh with a very sweet, scented flavour.
- Availability
- Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
Accession No.
1951 - 105
- Accession name
- Abbe Fetel
- Flowering time ›››
- 20th April10% flowering
25th AprilFull (80%) flowering
4th May90% petal fall - Size
- small-medium 1
- Shape
- flask 1
- Ground Colour
- yellow 1
- Over Colour
- none 1
- Over Colour Amount
- absent 1
- Russet
- high (51-75%) 1
- Flesh Colour
- white 1
- Weight
- 133.00 g 1
- Stalk Angle
- oblique 1
- Stalk Curve
- very weak 1
- Stalk Thickness
- medium-thick 1
- Stalk Length
- medium-long 1
- Eye Aperture
- open 1
- Stalk Length
- medium-long mm 1
- References:
- 1. NFC fruit (undated) Unpublished characterisation by staff at NFC, Brogdale.
Design: Chris Turnbull, September 2019