Details for: PI 541432, Pyrus communis L., 'Doyenne du Comice'

Summary Data

Taxonomy:

Pyrus communis L.

Cultivar:

'Doyenne du Comice'

Origin:

Developed – France

Maintained:

National Clonal Germplasm Repository

Received by NPGS:

08 Apr 1983

Improvement Status:

Cultivar

Form Received:

Plant

Life Form:

Tree

Life Habit:

Tree

Availability

This accession is not available. Contact site for status.

National Clonal Germplasm Repository

Images (17 total. Click on image for more.)

Core Passport Data

Taxonomy:

Pyrus communis L.

Cultivar:

'Doyenne du Comice'

Origin:

Developed – France

Maintained:

National Clonal Germplasm Repository

Received by NPGS:

08 Apr 1983

Improvement Status:

Cultivar

Form Received:

Plant

Life Form:

Tree

Life Habit:

Tree

Source History

Developed

1845.
France
Comment: Cultivar originated in 1845
Developer(s):

Comice Horticole

Donated

08 April 1983.
Oregon, United States
Comment: Received from M. Posnette at E. Malling to OSU Lewis-Brown to NCGR-Corvallis.
Donor(s):

Westwood, Melvin N., USDA/ARS/NCGR-Corvallis

Accession Names and Identifiers

'Doyenne du Comice'

Type: Cultivar name

EUROPEAN CULTIVAR

Type: Site identifier

Group: CROPTYPE

Comice

Type: Other or unclassified name

CPYR 1416

Type: Other or unclassified name

Group: LOCAL

Corvallis local number

Narrative

From the first seed bed in the fruit garden of Comice Horticole, Angers, Department of Maine-et-Loire, France. First fruited in 1849. Introduced into America, 1850. First recommended for general cultivation by A.P.S. in 1862. Fruit medium to large, sometimes very large, obovate-obtuse-pyriform. Skin fairly thick, granular, susceptible to blemishes, sometimes russeted, greenish-yellow in color, often blushed. Flesh very fine, melting, extremely juicy, quite free of grit. Sweet, rich, aromatic, vinous flavor. Regarded by many as the standard of dessert quality smong pears. Midseason. Fruit inclined to bruise easily in the ripe stage. Tree large, stately, vigorous, but slow in coming into bearing. Semi-dwarf on quince, moderately susceptible to fire blight. Doyenne du comice is a temperamental variety which reaches perfection only under limited conditions of soil, climate, and location. -- H. Hartman, Oregon Ag. Experiment Station, 1957 --

Comice is marketed by Harry and David in southern Oregon under the trademark name 'Royal Riviera'

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

The Taxonomic Name Of The Accession When It Was Received: 31 Jul 1989, from Pyrus communis L. var. pyraster L. to Pyrus communis L.

Observations

Phenotype Data

Category	Descriptor	Description	Value	Study	Availability
DISEASE	FRUIT_SCAB	RATING OF DAMAGE CAUSED BY FRUIT SCAB	1 - NO DAMAGE	PYRUS.CORVALLIS.1987	Not Available
DISEASE	LEAF_SCAB	RATING OF DAMAGE CAUSED BY LEAF SCAB	1 - NO DAMAGE	PYRUS.CORVALLIS.1987	Not Available
DISEASE	LEAF_SCAB	RATING OF DAMAGE CAUSED BY LEAF SCAB	3 - (1 = NO DAMAGE, 9 = SEVERE DAMAGE)	PYRUS.CORVALLIS.1987	Not Available
DISEASE	PSEUDOMONAS	RATING OF DAMAGE CAUSED BY PSEUDOMONAS	7 - (1 = NO DAMAGE, 9 = SEVERE DAMAGE)	PYRUS.CORVALLIS.1988	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
MORPHOLOGY	BLOOM_DENSITY	BLOOM DENSITY	6 - (1 = LOW, 9 = HIGH)	PYRUS.CORVALLIS.1988	Not Available
PHENOLOGY	FIRST_BLOOM	JULIAN DATE OF FIRST BLOOM	102	PYRUS.CORVALLIS.1989	Not Available
PHENOLOGY	FIRST_BLOOM	JULIAN DATE OF FIRST BLOOM	92	PYRUS.CORVALLIS.1990	Not Available
PHENOLOGY	FIRST_BLOOM	JULIAN DATE OF FIRST BLOOM	98	PYRUS.CORVALLIS.1988	Not Available
PHENOLOGY	FULL_BLOOM	JULIAN DATE OF FULL BLOOM	104	PYRUS.CORVALLIS.1988	Not Available
PHENOLOGY	FULL_BLOOM	JULIAN DATE OF FULL BLOOM	107	PYRUS.CORVALLIS.1989	Not Available
PHENOLOGY	FULL_BLOOM	JULIAN DATE OF FULL BLOOM	194	PYRUS.CORVALLIS.1988	Not Available
PHENOLOGY	FULL_BLOOM	JULIAN DATE OF FULL BLOOM	98	PYRUS.CORVALLIS.1990	Not Available
PHENOLOGY	LAST_BLOOM	JULIAN DATE OF LAST BLOOM	106	PYRUS.CORVALLIS.1990	Not Available
PHENOLOGY	LAST_BLOOM	JULIAN DATE OF LAST BLOOM	112	PYRUS.CORVALLIS.1989	Not Available
PHENOLOGY	LAST_BLOOM	JULIAN DATE OF LAST BLOOM	113	PYRUS.CORVALLIS.1988	Not Available
PHENOLOGY	FULL_RIPE	JULIAN DATE OF FULL RIPE FRUIT	298	PYRUS.CORVALLIS.1990	Not Available