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

Pear varieties

  • Packham's Triumph Pear
    A commercially important Australian pear variety. Good flavor and reliable cropping.

  • Pendula Pear
    A very attractive flowering pear tree, notable for its distinctive weeping branches, and silver-green leaves.

  • Pitmaston Duchess Pear
    A popular late-season 19th century English pear.

  • Princess Pear
    An English pear, from the famous Rivers Nursery.

  • The Himalayan Pear - an attractive small ornamental pear tree, notable for its fiery autumn leaf colours.