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Alexandrina Bivort
Dessert pear
Pyrus communis L.
Raised by M. Bivort, Haelen, Belgium, and dedicated to his wife. First brought to notice in 1847. Fruits have melting, juicy flesh with a sweet and perfumed flavour.
- Availability
- Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
Accession No.
1976 - 177
- Accession name
- Alexandrina Bivort
- Flowering time ›››
- 16th April10% flowering
21st AprilFull (80%) flowering
1st May90% petal fall - Size
- medium 1
- Shape
- conical 1
- Ground Colour
- green-yellow/yellow 1
- Over Colour
- orange-red 1
- Over Colour Amount
- low 1
- Russet
- low (1-25%) 1
- Flesh Colour
- cream 1
- Weight
- 113.00 g 1
- Stalk Angle
- straight/oblique 1
- Stalk Curve
- medium 1
- Stalk Thickness
- medium-thick 1
- Stalk Length
- medium 1
- Eye Aperture
- open 1
- Stalk Length
- medium mm 1
- References:
- 1. NFC fruit (undated) Unpublished characterisation by staff at NFC, Brogdale.
Design: Chris Turnbull, September 2019