Certeau d'Automne
Culinary pear
Pyrus communis L.
Availability
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
Received by the National Fruit Trials in 1948 from Pepinieres Moreau, Rhone, France. Fruits have yellowish-white, rather dry flesh with a sweet, perfumed flavour. A very good cooking pear.
Accession name
Certeau d'Automne
Flowering time
24th April 10% flowering
28th April Full (80%) flowering
8th May 90% petal fall
Size
small-medium a
Type
Culinary a
Shape
conical/pyriform a
Ground Colour
yellow a
Over Colour (Amount)
very low/low/low-medium/medium a
Over Colour
orange-red a
Russet
absent/low a
Flesh Colour
white/yellow a
Weight
97.00 g a
Russet (percent)
0-25% a
Stalk Angle
straight/oblique a
Stalk Curve
absent a
Stalk Thickness
thin a
Stalk Length
long mm a
Eye Aperture
open a
References:
a. NFC fruit (undated) Unpublished characterisation by staff at NFC, Brogdale.