Giffards Butterbirne

Variety of European pear · Pyrus communis

Finest early summer butter pear with tender, melting flesh.

🇫🇷 France 1825Dessert

Taste & characteristics

Taste

mildjuicysweettenderaromatic

Susceptibility & resistance

Scab

Profile

Parentage: Zufallssämling
Breeder: Nicolas Giffard
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

Buttery-melting, very juicy, sweet, mildly acidic and delicately aromatic.

Growth

Medium vigour; for garden and traditional orchard.

Yield

Bears mid-late, after roughly 7 to 8 years, then reaches a high and regular level.

Notes

Regarded as the best early dessert and orchard pear. Thrives on fertile, moist, warm soils, tolerates no upland. Blooms mid-early. Tree-ripe late July to early Aug, keeps only about two weeks and goes mealy fast; fruit storm-firm until ripeness.

Care

As an early variety, pick close to ripeness and use quickly since it goes mealy fast. Choose a warm, fertile site.

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