Details for: PI 617665, Pyrus communis L., 'Rising Star'

Summary Data

Taxonomy:

Pyrus communis L.

Cultivar:

'Rising Star'

Origin:

Donated – Texas, United States

Maintained:

National Clonal Germplasm Repository

Received by NPGS:

06 Jan 1999

Improvement Status:

Cultivar

Form Received:

Scion

Availability

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Core Passport Data

Taxonomy:

Pyrus communis L.

Cultivar:

'Rising Star'

Origin:

Donated – Texas, United States

Maintained:

National Clonal Germplasm Repository

Received by NPGS:

06 Jan 1999

Improvement Status:

Cultivar

Form Received:

Scion

Source History

Donated

06 January 1999.
Texas, United States

Donor(s):

Natelson, Ethan A.

Accession Names and Identifiers

'Rising Star'

Type: Cultivar name

Named for Rising Star, Texas were it was found.

Lipe, John A. Texas Agriculture Extension

CPYR 2610

Type: Site identifier

Group: LOCAL

Corvallis local number

EUROPEAN CULTIVAR

Type: Site identifier

Group: CROPTYPE

Narrative

'Rising Star' was found as a chance seedling by the late John Lipe, the Extension Agent for Fredricksburg, Texas. It was found in a town called Rising Star (population, 859). It is a large pear, rather ugly, but of good quality. Ethan Natelson, March 14, 1999.

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

Taxonomic Re-Identification: 04 Feb 2009, from Pyrus spp. to Pyrus communis L.

Observations

Phenotype Data

Category	Descriptor	Description	Value	Study	Inventory	Availability
CYTOLOGIC	PLOIDY LEVEL	Number of sets of chromosomes.	3x - triploid	PYRUS.PLOIDY.2012	CPYR 2610 .001 PL	Not Available
CYTOLOGIC	PLOIDY LEVEL	Number of sets of chromosomes.	3x - triploid	PYRUS.PLOIDY.2013	CPYR 2610 .001 PL	Not Available
DISEASE	FRUIT_SCAB	RATING OF DAMAGE CAUSED BY FRUIT SCAB	1 - NO DAMAGE	PYRUS.CORVALLIS.2005.FRUITSCAB	CPYR 2610 .001 PL	Not Available
DISEASE	Fabraea Leafspot Disease	Observed presence/severity of Fabraea Leafspot Disease	1	PYRUS.CORVALLIS.2003.FABRAEA	CPYR 2610 .001 PL	Not Available