Diels Butterbirne

Variety of European pear · Pyrus communis

Demanding, spiced dessert pear for warm, sheltered sites and weak rootstocks.

🇧🇪 Belgium 1811DessertStorage

Taste & characteristics

Taste

sourtartjuicyspicysweettender

Susceptibility & resistance

ScabFireblight

Profile

Parentage: Zufallssämling
Breeder: Jean-Baptiste van Mons
Pollination: self-sterile – needs a pollinator variety

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

Half-melting, grainy, juicy fruit, sweet with a wine-sour to bitter note and characteristic spicing.

Growth

Strong-growing but not recommended as a standard tree; well suited to wall espalier.

Yield

Early to medium-early to bear, moderate and regular; the fruit is knocked down by wind.

Notes

Sensitive, demanding variety, recommended only for espalier and garden. Needs warm, sheltered sites, no upland positions and continuously well-fed soils. Tree-ripe mid-October, ready to eat October to December, keeps around 2 months.

Care

Harvest before full tree ripeness as the fruit drops in wind. Choose a warm, sheltered, well-fed site; watch for scab and fireblight.

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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