Details for: PI 541287, Pyrus communis L., 'Yellow Huffcap'

Summary Data

Taxonomy:

Pyrus communis L.

Cultivar:

'Yellow Huffcap'

Origin:

Developed – England, United Kingdom

Maintained:

National Clonal Germplasm Repository

Received by NPGS:

21 Feb 1981

Improvement Status:

Cultivar

Form Received:

Plant

Life Form:

Tree

Life Habit:

Tree

Availability

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Core Passport Data

Taxonomy:

Pyrus communis L.

Cultivar:

'Yellow Huffcap'

Origin:

Developed – England, United Kingdom

Maintained:

National Clonal Germplasm Repository

Received by NPGS:

21 Feb 1981

Improvement Status:

Cultivar

Form Received:

Plant

Life Form:

Tree

Life Habit:

Tree

Source History

Developed

1884.
England, United Kingdom
Comment: Cultivar originated prior to 1884

Donated

21 February 1981.
Oregon, United States
Comment: Received from collection at Medford, OR to NCGR-Corvallis
Donor(s):

Lombard, Porter, Oregon State University

Accession Names and Identifiers

'Yellow Huffcap'

Type: Cultivar name

Perry Pear

Type: Local name

EUROPEAN CULTIVAR

Type: Site identifier

Group: CROPTYPE

CPYR 624

Type: Other or unclassified name

Group: LOCAL

Corvallis local number

CPYR 625

Type: Inventory

Narrative

Yellow Huffcap (PI 541287). A mid season perry pear with high acids and low tannins. Origin: Traditional old English cultivar. The Huffcaps are a related group of cultivars with a distinct elliptical shape, protruding calyx end, and capacity for producing a strong perry. The Yellow Huffcap may be the original Huffcap pear from which the others were derived. The name Huffcap may have come from a potent ale that could lift one s cap , or possibly from an alternate spelling Huffcup referring to lifting your cup when making a toast. Fruit: Small, elliptical, 41-51 mm long, 35-45 mm. diam.; stem thick and swollen at both ends, 14-22 mm.; stem basin small or none; calyx basin narrow; calyx upright. Skin green or dark yellow with no blush, russetted around stem and calyx; covered with large, corky lenticels. Flesh slightly yellow-green with few stone cells. Ripens mid-October in England s West Midlands, mid September in western Oregon; must be shaken before ripe to prevent rotting on the tree. Tree: Mature tree is large with large spreading limbs. Very productive, but biennial bearing, slow to come into bearing; early flowering. Perry: Fruit milled within one week of harvest; juice acidity 0.62, tannis 0.10, specific gravity 1.064; contains a higher concentration of citric acid than most other perry pears (>.3%); produces a consistently good to excellent full flavoured vintage with moderate acids and low tannins. - Brooks and Olmo Register of Fruit and Nut Varieties.

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 625 .001 PL	Not Available
DISEASE	FRUIT_SCAB	RATING OF DAMAGE CAUSED BY FRUIT SCAB	3 - (1 = NO DAMAGE, 9 = SEVERE DAMAGE)	PYRUS.CORVALLIS.2005.FRUITSCAB	CPYR 625 .001 PL	Not Available
MORPHOLOGY	PEDICEL_ATTACHMENT	PEDICEL ATTACHMENT	L - LEVEL	PYRUS.CORVALLIS.STD		Not Available
MORPHOLOGY	CAVITY	CAVITY	N - NONE	PYRUS.CORVALLIS.STD		Not Available
MORPHOLOGY	CALYX	CALYX	P - PERSISTANT	PYRUS.CORVALLIS.STD		Not Available
MORPHOLOGY	CALYX_BASIN	CALYX BASIN	N - NONE	PYRUS.CORVALLIS.STD		Not Available
MORPHOLOGY	GROUND_COLOR	GROUND COLOR	Y - YELLOW	PYRUS.CORVALLIS.STD		Not Available
MORPHOLOGY	OVER_COLOR	OVERCOLOR	N - NONE	PYRUS.CORVALLIS.STD		Not Available
MORPHOLOGY	RUSSET	AMOUNT OF RUSSETING	5 - (1 = NONE, 9 = COMPLETELY RUSSETED)	PYRUS.CORVALLIS.STD		Not Available
MORPHOLOGY	RUSSET_LOCATION	LOCATION OF RUSSETING	B - BLUSH SIDE	PYRUS.CORVALLIS.STD		Not Available
MORPHOLOGY	RUSSET_LOCATION	LOCATION OF RUSSETING	C - CALYX END	PYRUS.CORVALLIS.STD		Not Available
MORPHOLOGY	RUSSET_LOCATION	LOCATION OF RUSSETING	P - PEDICEL END	PYRUS.CORVALLIS.STD		Not Available
MORPHOLOGY	LENTICELS	NUMBER OF LENTICELS	5 - (1 = FEW, 9 = MANY)	PYRUS.CORVALLIS.STD		Not Available
MORPHOLOGY	LENTICEL_SIZE	SIZE OF LENTICELS	3 - (1 = SMALL, 9 = LARGE)	PYRUS.CORVALLIS.STD		Not Available
MORPHOLOGY	DOTS	DOTS	O - OBSCURE	PYRUS.CORVALLIS.STD		Not Available
MORPHOLOGY	FLESH_COLOR	FLESH COLOR	Y - YELLOW	PYRUS.CORVALLIS.STD		Not Available
MORPHOLOGY	FLESH_TEXTURE	FLESH TEXTURE	4 - (1 = FINE, 9 = COARSE)	PYRUS.CORVALLIS.STD		Not Available
MORPHOLOGY	FRUITCORE	CORE	D - DISTANT	PYRUS.CORVALLIS.STD		Not Available
MORPHOLOGY	CARPEL_NUMBER	NUMBER OF CARPELS	5	PYRUS.CORVALLIS.STD		Not Available
MORPHOLOGY	GRIT	NUMBER OF STONE CELLS	3 - (1 = NO STONE CELLS, 9 = MANY STONE CELLS)	PYRUS.CORVALLIS.STD		Not Available
MORPHOLOGY	GRIT_SIZE	SIZE AND LOCATION OF STONE CELLS	S - SMALL	PYRUS.CORVALLIS.STD		Not Available
MORPHOLOGY	CORE_BREAKDOWN	DEGREE OF CORE BREAKDOWN, DETERMINED ON TREE RIPENED FRUIT	1 - NONE	PYRUS.CORVALLIS.STD		Not Available
MORPHOLOGY	OXIDATION	OXIDATION OF CUT MEASURED AFTER 5 MINUTES	5 - (1 = NONE, 9 = SEVERE)	PYRUS.CORVALLIS.STD		Not Available
MORPHOLOGY	FLAVOR	FLAVOR OF FRUIT FLESH	S - SWEET	PYRUS.CORVALLIS.STD		Not Available
MORPHOLOGY	FLAVOR	FLAVOR OF FRUIT FLESH	T - ASTRINGENT	PYRUS.CORVALLIS.STD		Not Available
MORPHOLOGY	QUALITY	QUALITY OF FRUIT FLESH A COMBINATION OF FLAVOR, TEXTURE AND AROMA	3 - (1 = POOR, 9 = EXCELLENT)	PYRUS.CORVALLIS.STD		Not Available
PHENOLOGY	FIRST_BLOOM	JULIAN DATE OF FIRST BLOOM	92	PYRUS.CORVALLIS.1990		Not Available
PHENOLOGY	FIRST_BLOOM	JULIAN DATE OF FIRST BLOOM	95	PYRUS.CORVALLIS.1991		Not Available
PHENOLOGY	FULL_BLOOM	JULIAN DATE OF FULL BLOOM	101	PYRUS.CORVALLIS.1991		Not Available
PHENOLOGY	FULL_BLOOM	JULIAN DATE OF FULL BLOOM	95	PYRUS.CORVALLIS.1990		Not Available
PHENOLOGY	LAST_BLOOM	JULIAN DATE OF LAST BLOOM	102	PYRUS.CORVALLIS.1990		Not Available
PHENOLOGY	LAST_BLOOM	JULIAN DATE OF LAST BLOOM	108	PYRUS.CORVALLIS.1991		Not Available
PHENOLOGY	FULL_RIPE	JULIAN DATE OF FULL RIPE FRUIT	269	PYRUS.CORVALLIS.1990		Not Available