Pearvariety
Doyenne du Comice
A dessert pear with white flesh and yellow skin, conical or pear-shaped; juicy.
Origin · Angers, France
Released 1858
Taste & texture
- Juiciness
- juicy
- Flesh type
- melting
- Used for
- Dessert pear
How to spot it
- Flesh
- whiteyellow
- Shape
- conical, pear shaped
Origin & family
Where Doyenne du Comice began
Recorded origin
Angers
France
- Released
- 1858
Doyenne du Comice’s family
11 varieties · 10 recorded linksArrows follow parents → children
This variety
Doyenne du Comice
Angers, France
Photo: Fructibus · CC0 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedication
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Field notes
Original source notes
- size
- medium to large · United Kingdomnationalfruitcollection.org.uk ↗
- shape
- conical, pear shaped · United Kingdomnationalfruitcollection.org.uk ↗
- flesh colour
- white · United Kingdomnationalfruitcollection.org.uk ↗
- weight
- 229 g · United Kingdomnationalfruitcollection.org.uk ↗
- size
- large to very large · United Kingdomnationalfruitcollection.org.uk ↗
- shape
- conical, pear shaped · United Kingdomnationalfruitcollection.org.uk ↗
- flesh colour
- white · United Kingdomnationalfruitcollection.org.uk ↗
- weight
- 442 g · United Kingdomnationalfruitcollection.org.uk ↗
- texture
- melting, juicynationalfruitcollection.org.uk ↗
- flesh colour
- yellownationalfruitcollection.org.uk ↗
Fruit & tree
- sports
- Red Comice Doyenne du Comice (4n)
- father to
- Cascade Colette Condo Dawn
- mother to
- Belle Guerandaise Concorde
Photos
FructibusCC0 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedication Pera Comice de Lleida