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Alexandre Delfosse
Dessert pear
Pyrus communis L.
- Availability
- Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
Accession No.
1951 - 107
Received by the National Fruit Trials in 1951 from Station de Recherches, Ghent, Belgium. Fruits have firm, tender, slightly gritty flesh with a sweet, slightly perfumed flavour.
- Accession name
- Alexandre Delfosse
- Flowering time ›››
- 24th April10% flowering
28th AprilFull (80%) flowering
7th May90% petal fall - Size
- very small/very small-small/small/small-medium/medium 1
- Shape
- ovoid/pyriform 1
- Ground Colour
- green 1
- Over Colour
- none 1
- Over Colour Amount
- absent 1
- Russet
- high/very high (51-100%) 1
- Flesh Colour
- white/green 1
- Weight
- 103.00 g 1
- Stalk Angle
- straight/oblique 1
- Stalk Curve
- absent 1
- Stalk Thickness
- medium-thick 1
- Stalk Length
- short-medium 1
- Eye Aperture
- open 1
- Stalk Length
- short-medium mm 1
- References:
- 1. NFC fruit (undated) Unpublished characterisation by staff at NFC, Brogdale.
Design: Chris Turnbull, September 2019