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Ewart

Variety of European pear · Pyrus communis

Late-blooming, very healthy dessert pear for wide cultivation.

Dessert

Taste & characteristics

Taste

mildtender

Profile

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

Fully melting, mildly aromatic dessert pear for fresh eating.

Growth

Medium to strong vigour; broadly cultivable.

Yield

Bears early and regularly.

Notes

Newly discovered, very healthy dessert pear for garden and orchard with no special heat need; grows up to low mountain sites (350 m). Picking mid-to-late Sep, eating-ripe mid-Oct, keeps about three weeks. Currently only available as scionwood from a variety-conservation network.

Care

Undemanding variety needing little care; use up around eating ripeness in October.

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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