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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. Pollination partners
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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 |
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