Details for: PI 131123, Pyrus communis L., 'Charles Escaig'

Summary Data

Taxonomy:

Pyrus communis L.

Cultivar:

'Charles Escaig'

Origin:

Developed – France

Maintained:

National Clonal Germplasm Repository

Received by NPGS:

01 Feb 1983

PI Assigned:

1938

Improvement Status:

Cultivar

Form Received:

Plant

Life Form:

Tree

Life Habit:

Tree

Inventory Volume:

137
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Availability

This accession is not available. Contact site for status.

National Clonal Germplasm Repository

Restricted Distribution due to Pathogen infection

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Core Passport Data

Taxonomy:

Pyrus communis L.

Cultivar:

'Charles Escaig'

Origin:

Developed – France

Maintained:

National Clonal Germplasm Repository

Received by NPGS:

01 Feb 1983

PI Assigned:

1938

Improvement Status:

Cultivar

Form Received:

Plant

Life Form:

Tree

Life Habit:

Tree

Source History

Developed

1933.
France
Comment: Cultivar introduced in 1933

Donated

01 February 1983.
West Virginia, United States
Comment: Rec'd from Baltet Bros, Troyes, France to Kearneysville, WV to NCGR-Corvallis.
Donor(s):

Bell, Richard L., USDA, ARS

Accession Names and Identifiers

'Charles Escaig'

Type: Cultivar name

CPYR 1075

Type: Site identifier

Group: LOCAL

Corvallis local number

EUROPEAN CULTIVAR

Type: Site identifier

Group: CROPTYPE

Narrative

Introduced by Baltet Nurseries, troyes, France in 1933. Received at Wooster, Ohio, from USDA as PI 131123 in 1942. Fruit size medium, roundish, flattened, irregularly shaped. Skin greenish-yellow, often completely covered with russet, may be blushed with red. Flesh color variable, soft, medium, gramular, tender, juicy, sweet; stone cells scarce, confined to core. Flavor fair to good. Harvest second week in October. Keeping quality fairly good. Late harvested variety. Fairly attractive. Should have further observation. -- F.S. Howlett, Ohio Ag. Experiment Station, 1957.

Pyrus communis L.

Genus:

Pyrus

Section:

Pyrus

Family:

Rosaceae

Subfamily:

Amygdaloideae

Tribe:

Maleae

Subtribe:

Malinae

Nomen number:

30474

Place of publication:

Sp. pl. 1:479, 2:1200. 1753

Protologue link:

https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/358498

Comment:

probably of hybrid origin

Typification:

View in Linnean Typification Project

Verified:

07/07/2011 by ARS Systematic Botanists.

Other conspecific taxa

Pyrus communis L. subsp. caucasica (Fed.) Browicz (77 active accession[s])
Pyrus communis L. subsp. communis (39 active accession[s])
Pyrus communis L. subsp. pyraster (L.) Ehrh. (113 active accession[s])

Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations

Heterotypic Synonym(s)
Pyrus asiae-mediae (Popov) Maleev
Pyrus balansae Decne.
Pyrus bourgaeana Decne.
Pyrus communis L. subsp. bourgaeana (Decne.) Nyman
Pyrus communis L. var. mariana Willk.
Pyrus domestica Medik.
Pyrus elata Rubtzov
Pyrus medvedevii Rubtzov

Common names

Language	Name	note	seq	Citation
English	pear		1	Wiersema, J. H. & B. León. 1999. World economic plants: a standard reference CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL.
French	poirier		2	Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants
German	Birnbaum		2	Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants
German	Birne		2	Reichel, S. 1998. pers. comm. Note: re. German common names
German	Birnenbaum		2	Reichel, S. 1998. pers. comm. Note: re. German common names
Italian	pera		2	Hanelt, P., ed. 2001. Mansfeld's encyclopedia of agricultural and horticultural crops. Volumes 1-6
Italian	pero		2	Hanelt, P., ed. 2001. Mansfeld's encyclopedia of agricultural and horticultural crops. Volumes 1-6
Japanese Rōmaji	seiyō-nashi		2	Ohwi, J. 1965. Flora of Japan (Engl. ed.).
Portuguese	pereira		2	Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants
Spanish	pera		2	Hanelt, P., ed. 2001. Mansfeld's encyclopedia of agricultural and horticultural crops. Volumes 1-6
Spanish	peral		2	Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants
Swedish	päron		2	Aldén, B., S. Ryman, & M. Hjertson. 2012. Svensk Kulturväxtdatabas, SKUD (Swedish Cultivated and Utility Plants Database; online resource)
Transcribed Chinese	xi yang li	as Pyrus communis var. sativa	2	Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. 1994-. Flora of China (English edition). Note: = Pyrus communis var. sativa
Transcribed Korean	byeongbaenamu		2	Mun-Chan, B. et al. 1986. A checklist of the Korean cultivated plants. Kulturpflanze 34:122.

Annotations

Observations

Phenotype Data

Category	Descriptor	Description	Value	Study	Inventory	Availability
CYTOLOGIC	PLOIDY LEVEL	Number of sets of chromosomes.	2x - diploid	PYRUS.PLOIDY.2012	CPYR 1075 .001 PL	Not Available
DISEASE	FRUIT_SCAB	RATING OF DAMAGE CAUSED BY FRUIT SCAB	1 - NO DAMAGE	PYRUS.CORVALLIS.1987		Not Available
DISEASE	FRUIT_SCAB	RATING OF DAMAGE CAUSED BY FRUIT SCAB	2 - (1 = NO DAMAGE, 9 = SEVERE DAMAGE)	PYRUS.CORVALLIS.2005.FRUITSCAB	CPYR 1075 .001 PL	Not Available
DISEASE	LEAF_SCAB	RATING OF DAMAGE CAUSED BY LEAF SCAB	1 - NO DAMAGE	PYRUS.CORVALLIS.1987		Not Available
DISEASE	RUST	RATING OF DAMAGE CAUSED BY RUST	1 - NO DAMAGE	PYRUS.CORVALLIS.1987		Not Available
INSECT	BLISTER_MITES	RATING OF DAMAGE CAUSED BY BLISTER MITES	1 - NO DAMAGE	PYRUS.CORVALLIS.1987		Not Available
PHENOLOGY	FIRST_BLOOM	JULIAN DATE OF FIRST BLOOM	93	PYRUS.CORVALLIS.1990		Not Available
PHENOLOGY	FULL_BLOOM	JULIAN DATE OF FULL BLOOM	98	PYRUS.CORVALLIS.1990		Not Available
PHENOLOGY	LAST_BLOOM	JULIAN DATE OF LAST BLOOM	107	PYRUS.CORVALLIS.1990		Not Available
PHENOLOGY	FULL_RIPE	JULIAN DATE OF FULL RIPE FRUIT	269	PYRUS.CORVALLIS.1990		Not Available