Variety profile
Pear ‚Gellerts Butterbirne’
Pyrus communis · Rosaceae
- Ripening
- mittel
- Harvest
- Week 37 to 39
- Vigour
- stark
- Origin
- Frankreich
- Introduced
- 1820
- Storage life
- 2 months
- Self-fertile
- No
- Pollination group
- B
- Heritage variety
- Yes
- Use
- Tafel, Einmachen
- Pollinator
- Conference, Gute Luise, Clapps Liebling
- Rootstock
- Quitte A, Kirchensaller Mostbirne Sämling
- Disease resistance
- Feuerbrand: mittel, Schorf: mittel
About this variety
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You will find ‚Gellerts Butterbirne’ (also known as Hardenponts Winterbutterbirne) to be an elegant, melting autumn pear with a fine aroma. It is more robust and frost-hardy than many of its relatives. The tree grows strong and bears reliably, making it a good high trunk for the orchard. Plant a pollinator such as ‚Conference’ with it.
You will taste butter-soft, melting, very juicy flesh with an elegant, harmonious sweetness. It is a classic table pear of the old school that deserves its name.
Care and diseases
Soil, feeding, pruning, companion planting and diseases apply to every variety of this species alike. You will find the full guidance on the species page.
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