Napoleons Butterbirne
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7Taste & characteristics
Taste
Susceptibility & resistance
Profile
- Breeder
- Liard
- Pollination
- self-sterile – needs a pollinator variety
Flowering & harvest
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Description
Fruit
Very juicy melting pear with a harmonious sweet-wine-acidic, fine aroma. One of the best-tasting November dessert pears.
Growth
Growth first medium-strong, then weak. Fruit hangs wind-firm on the tree until tree ripeness. Very good for espalier with rain protection.
Yield
Early start of bearing, later high and regular. With heavy set, fruit thinning is advised to improve quality.
Notes
Needs warmer, dry-air sites with higher heat requirements; cultivation up to 350 m on nutrient-rich, warm, adequately moist soils. Tree-ripe early to mid October, ready to eat November to mid December; keeps about 6 weeks.
Care
Thin fruit when set is heavy. Best trained as a rain-protected espalier to reduce the strong scab pressure.
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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