List of pear cultivars

Over 3000 cultivars of the pear are known.[1] The following is a list of the more common and important cultivars, with the year and place of origin (where documented) and an indication of whether the pears are for cooking, eating, or making perry. Those varieties marked agm have gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit.

Table of pears

Common name	Synonyms	Image	Origin	First developed	Comment	Use
Abate Fetel	Abbé Fetel		France	after 1865	a major cultivar in Italy[2]	Eating
Alexander Lucas
Ambrosia
Ayers			United States		an interspecific P. communis× P. pyrifolia hybrid from the University of Tennessee
Bambinella			Malta
Black Worcester			England		a cooking pear that keeps well	cooking
Blake's Pride[3]			United States	1965[3]	derived from a cross of US 446 x US 505, made by H.J. Brooks[3]
Blanquilla	'pera de agua' and 'blanquilla de Aranjuez', Spain
Bon Rouge					cultivar derived from a rare, spontaneous bud mutation of the green pear cultivar William’s Bon Chretien[4]
Bosc
Beurré Hardy[5]	Beurre Hardy		Boulogne-sur-Mer[6]	c. 1820-1830
Butirra Precoce Morettini[7]	Beurré précoce Morettini		Florence, Italy	1956	cross between Coscia x Williams’ (Bartlett) made by Morettini
Carmen[8]
Cascade
Catillac
Churchland
Clairgeau
Clapp's Favourite			Dorchester, Massachusetts	c. 1860
Clara Frijs			thought to be from the village of Skensved[9]	c. 1858	major cultivar in Denmark
Concorde			England		a seedling of 'Conference' × 'Doyenné du Comice
Conference			Sawbridgeworth, Hertfordshire, England	1894
Corella			Barossa Valley in southern Australia by German settlers[10]	late 19th century[10][11]
Coscia			Italy		very early maturing cultivar
Claude Blanchet			Vienne, Isère, France by M BLANCHET[12]	1877[12]		Random seedling[12]
D'Anjou
Dessertnaja
Don Guindo			Spain		strong yellow, flavoured taste
Doyenné du Comice			France
Dr. Jules Guyot
Earlibrite
Elektra
European (Pyrus communis)
Flemish Beauty	Fondante des Bois
Fondante d'Automne			France	c. 1825	An old Flemish variety raised by Fievee at Maubeuge[13]
Forelle
General Leclerc
Gerburg
Giffard
Glou Morceau			Belgium	1750
Gorham			United States
Harobig
Harovin Sundown
Harrow Crisp
Harrow Delight			Canada
Harrow Gold
Harrow Red
Harrow Sweet			Canada
Harvest Queen
Hermann
Hortensia
Huntington Pear
Isolda
Joséphine de Malines			Belgium		obtained by Esperen, pomologist and mayor of Malines in the 19th century; one of the best late season pears
Kieffer			United States		a hybrid of the Chinese "sand pear", P. pyrifolia and probably 'Bartlett'
La France			France
Lategale
Laxtons Superb'			England		no longer used due to high susceptibility to fireblight
Le Conte
Louise Bonne[14]			Normandy, France	late 1700s[15]
Luscious			United States
Merton Pride			England	1941
Moonglow
Chinese White Pear (Pyrus bretschneideri)	Nashi
Nashi (Pyrus pyrifolia)	Asian/Japanese/Chinese/Korean/Taiwanese/sand pear				Kosui Hosui Nijisseiki
Kosui (幸水) (Pyrus pyrifolia subsp. culta)	Russet apple pear		National Institute of Fruit Tree Science, Japan	c. 1959	the most important cultivar in Japan),[16][17] ('Russet pears')	Cider, cooking, eating
Hosui (豊水) (Pyrus pyrifolia subsp. culta)[18][19]	'Russet pears',Russet apple pear		National Institute of Fruit Tree Science, Japan	c. 1972		Cider, cooking, eating
Nijisseiki (二十世紀) name means "20th century", also spelled 'Nijusseiki' (Pyrus pyrifolia subsp. culta)[20][21]	'Green pears',		Matsudo, Chiba, Japan	c. 1888	Green apple pear	Cider, cooking, eating
Onward[22]			National Fruit Trials in Wisley, Surrey	1947	Laxton's Superb x Doyenne du Comice	Eating
Orcas[23]
Orient			United States		an interspecific P. communis × P. pyrifolia hybrid
Passe Crassane			France		A variety developed by M. Boisbunel, a nurseryman from Rouen, France[24]
Packham	'Packham's Triumph'		Australia	1896
Parsonage			New Rochelle, New York	c. 1857
Pineapple[25][26]			United States		an interspecific P. communis × P. pyrifolia hybrid
Rocha	Pêra Rocha		Portugal
Rosemarie			South Africa		bred from Bon Rouge and Forelle[27]
Seckel			United States, Philadelphia area	late 17th century	still produced, naturally resistant to fireblight)[28]
Starkrimson	Red Clapp's		Michigan	1939	a red-skinned bud mutation of Clapp's Favourite. Its thick, smooth skin is a uniform, bright and intense red, and its creamy flesh is sweet and aromatic.[29]
Stinking Bishop
Summer Beauty
Summercrisp
Sudduth
Taylor's Gold			New Zealand		a russeted mutant clone of 'Comice'
Tosca
Turandot
Uta
Vicar of Winkfield			England		a green skinned cooking pear	cooking
Virgouleuse
Williams	Williams' Bon Chrétien Bartlett (United States name) Red Bartlett (United States)				There are three major red-skinned mutant clones: 'Max Red Bartlett', 'Sensation Red Bartlett', 'Rosired Bartlett'
Winter Nelis

Cider pears

Cider pears (Perry pears) may be far too sour or bitter for fresh eating, but are used for making cider. Some pears (especially older ones from the U.S. and Canada) are used for both cider and eating purposes.

Gallery

• 
  Anjou
• 
  Bosc
• 
  Conference
• 
  Forelle
• 
  European Pear
• 
  Le Conte
• 
  Pêra Rocha
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  Pyrus pyrifolia
• 
  Pyrus bretschneideri
• 
  Warden
• 
  Williams (Bartlett)
• 
  Vicar of Winkfield cultivar

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