Details for: PI 541514, Pyrus communis L., 'Duchesse Bererd'

Summary Data

Taxonomy:

Pyrus communis L.

Cultivar:

'Duchesse Bererd'

Origin:

Developed – Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France

Maintained:

National Clonal Germplasm Repository

Received by NPGS:

25 Apr 1988

Improvement Status:

Cultivar

Form Received:

Cutting

Life Form:

Tree

Life Habit:

Tree

Availability

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National Clonal Germplasm Repository

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Core Passport Data

Taxonomy:

Pyrus communis L.

Cultivar:

'Duchesse Bererd'

Origin:

Developed – Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France

Maintained:

National Clonal Germplasm Repository

Received by NPGS:

25 Apr 1988

Improvement Status:

Cultivar

Form Received:

Cutting

Life Form:

Tree

Life Habit:

Tree

Source History

Developed

1905.
Rhône Metropolitan Department, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France
Comment: In the town Quincieux. Information from Catalog of Pear Pomological Exhibition, 1976 vol.2 p.179

Donated

25 April 1988.
California, United States
Comment: Scions received from C.T. Kennedy, California Rare Fruit Growers, Inc. to NCGR-Corvallis
Donor(s):

Kennedy, C.T., California Rare Fruit Growers

Accession Names and Identifiers

'Duchesse Bererd'

Type: Cultivar name

EUROPEAN CULTIVAR

Type: Site identifier

Group: CROPTYPE

CPYR 2122

Type: Other or unclassified name

Group: LOCAL

Corvallis local number

Narrative

Seedling of 'Duchessa Bronzee' introduced in 1905 in Quincieux, France. Fruit large, round oblong or short quince-shaped. Skin greenish bronze, brown-yellow on sunny side. Flesh greenish white. Firmness medium. Flavor good, very sweet and perfumed; medium resistance to core breakdown. Season medium to late, about 52 days after Bartlett in Florence, Italy. Tree productivity is high and constant. -- Catalog of the Pear Pomological Exhibition, 2nd International Symposium on Pear Growing, Firenze, 1976.

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	Sample Size	Study	Inventory	Availability
CYTOLOGIC	PLOIDY LEVEL	Number of sets of chromosomes.	2x - diploid		PYRUS.PLOIDY.2012	CPYR 2122 .005 PL	Not Available
DISEASE	FRUIT_SCAB	RATING OF DAMAGE CAUSED BY FRUIT SCAB	0 - 0 (No Fruit to assess)		PYRUS.CORVALLIS.2005.FRUITSCAB	CPYR 2122 .005 PL	Not Available