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Tasting notes and identification advice for apples, pears, plums, cherries and other orchard varieties.

Pear varieties

  • Fertility Pear
    A late-season English pear, juicy sweet firm flesh, and easy to grow.

  • A traditional European pear from Belgium, with the classic rich sweet buttery melting flesh. Flemish Beauty is also self-fertile and cold-hardy.

  • Fondante d'Automne Pear
    A late-season fondant pear, named for its sugary sweet aromatic flesh.

  • Frangipane Pear
    An old late-season French dessert pear, with a melting sweet flavor allegedly reminscent of frangipane.