Belle Guerandaise

An excellent old pear variety. Sweet with perfumed flavour.

Origin: France, 1895

Pollination: Belle Guerandaise is self-sterile and would require a pollinator to produce a crop.Find pollination partners >

British-grown All our bare-root trees are personally hand-grafted by our Nursery Manager and grown on at our nursery in Kent. We have Defra and Plant Healthy certification. More ...

Belle Guerandaise pear trees produced to order

Closing date for custom graft orders: 14 Jul 2025

We do not stock this variety, but we can produce custom-graft trees for you. Trees can be grafted on any of the following rootstocks:

Form	Rootstock	Price	Quantity
Maiden	PyrusVery vigorous	£39.00

Custom graft trees would be supplied in December 2026. More details of our custom grafting service here.

History and description of Belle Guerandaise

Raised by M Dion near Guerande, Loire, France from a Doyenne du Comice seedling and introduced by M Bruant of Poitiers in 1895. Large pyriform slightly irregular shaped fruit. Green mostly smooth skin with some russetting. The white flesh is firm and slightly granular but also juicy and melting. It is sweet with a fragrant perfumed flavour. A high quality dessert pear.

Characteristics of Belle Guerandaise pear trees

Use	Dessert
Colour
Flavour
Fruit size	Large
Picking time	Late Sep
Season of use	Oct
Tree vigour	Moderate
Tree habit
Fruit-bearing	Spur-bearer
Cropping
Pollination date	13
Pollination group	C
Self-fertility	Self-sterile
Pollinators	Pollination partners
Parentage	Doyenne du Comice