Alexander Lucas

Variety of European pear · Pyrus communis

Large, juicy-sweet winter pear that keeps well in storage.

🇫🇷 France 1870DessertStorage

Taste & characteristics

Taste

mildjuicysweettender

Susceptibility & resistance

ScabFireblight

Profile

Parentage: Zufallssämling
Breeder: Alexandre Lucas (Zufallssämling bei Blois/Loire)
Pollination: self-sterile – needs a pollinator variety
Fruit weight: 210 g

Flowering & harvest

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Flowering
Fruit harvest
Storage

Given in thirds of a month (early / mid / late) for the northern hemisphere in a temperate climate; altitude and season shift them.

Description

Fruit

Juicy, half-melting dessert pear, mildly sweet with little acidity and rather weak aroma.

Growth

Medium-strong growth. Suited to wind-open sites without particular soil demands.

Yield

Sets in early and crops regularly and heavily, but tends to drop fruit early.

Notes

For garden and orchard, up to about 350 m in wind-sheltered low-mountain areas. Pick late September to early October, ready to eat October to early December, keeps around 2 months. Chlorosis can occur on limey soils.

Care

Harvest before full ripeness to avoid losses from fruit drop. Choose a wind-open site.

Site, soil, hardiness and growth follow the species European pear unless the variety states otherwise. Will it grow where you live? → Check your site on the species page

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