Esperens Bergamotte

Variety of European pear · Pyrus communis

Aromatic winter dessert pear for warm sites, ready from December.

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Taste & characteristics

Taste

mildsweettenderaromatic

Susceptibility & resistance

Scab

Profile

Breeder: Major Esperen
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

Melting, medium-firm, sweet with low acidity and fine aroma. Tends to set small fruit.

Growth

Medium vigour, later weak; suited to garden and espalier on a south wall.

Yield

Bears early to mid-early and remains regular thereafter.

Notes

Demanding, well-storing winter dessert pear with very high heat need. Requires warm, fertile, adequately moist soils in sheltered sites up to about 200 m; tolerates no upland. Blooms mid-late. Tree-ripe mid-to-late Oct, eating-ripe December, keeps 4-5 months.

Care

Thin in early July to get larger fruit instead of many small ones. Choose a warm, sheltered site and store cool.

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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