Pearvariety
Concorde
A dessert pear with white or cream flesh and yellow skin, pear-shaped or flask in shape, raised in 1977; sweet and aromatic.
Origin · East Malling Research Station, Maidstone, Kent
Taste & texture
- Sweetness
- high
- Scent
- Aromatic.
- Firmness
- firm
- Juiciness
- juicy
- Used for
- Dessert pear
How to spot it
- Flesh
- white, cream
Harvest & storage
- Ripening
- The flesh near the stem yields slightly when ripe.
Origin & family
Where Concorde began
Recorded origin
East Malling Research Station, Maidstone, Kent
Concorde’s family
5 varieties · 4 recorded linksArrows follow parents → children
This variety
Concorde
East Malling Research Station, Maidstone, Kent
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Field notes
Original source notes
- size
- medium to large · United Kingdomnationalfruitcollection.org.uk ↗
- flesh colour
- white, cream · United Kingdomnationalfruitcollection.org.uk ↗
- weight
- 173 g · United Kingdomnationalfruitcollection.org.uk ↗
- sweetness
- highnationalfruitcollection.org.uk ↗
- aroma
- Aromatic.nationalfruitcollection.org.uk ↗
- texture
- firm, juicyusapears.org ↗
- ripeness cue
- The flesh near the stem yields slightly when ripe.usapears.org ↗