Details for: PI 637997, Pyrus hybr., 'Le Conte'


Summary Data
Taxonomy:
Pyrus hybr.
Cultivar:
'Le Conte'
Origin:
Developed – Georgia, United States
Received by NPGS:
28 Oct 2001
Improvement Status:
Cultivar
Form Received:
Cutting
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Core Passport Data
Taxonomy:
Pyrus hybr.
Cultivar:
'Le Conte'
Origin:
Developed – Georgia, United States
Received by NPGS:
28 Oct 2001
Improvement Status:
Cultivar
Form Received:
Cutting
Source History
Developed
1850.
Georgia, United States

Donated
28 October 2001.
Florida, United States

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Accession Names and Identifiers
'Le Conte'
Type: Cultivar name

CPYR 2732
Type: Site identifier
Group: LOCAL
Corvallis local number

HYBRID CULTIVAR
Type: Site identifier
Group: CROPTYPE

Narrative
Le Conte is a hybrid between the Chinese Sand pear and a European sort, therefore of the same parentage as Kieffer which it greatly resembles in both tree and fruit. The fruits are rather poorer in quality than those of Kieffer, if that be possible for an edible fruit, and the tree is in no way superior to that of its better-known rival, but it seems to succeed better in warm climates and light soils. There is, therefore, a place for Le Conte in the South, if a pear is wanted for culinary purposes only. The fruits sometimes rot badly at the core, and should usually be harvested as soon as they attain full size. The trees are more susceptible to blight than those of Kieffer. In the South, the trees are often if not usually propagated from cuttings. Le Conte originated in America, and is probably a hybrid between the Chinese Sand pear and some native. It is supposed to have been carried from Philadelphia to Georgia about 1850 by Major Le Conte, and has since been extensively cultivated in the southern States for northern markets. In 1885 it was recommended by the Georgia Horticultural Society for cultivation in the middle region of that State. The American Pomological Society added Le Conte to its fruit-catalog in 1883. -- U.P. Hedrick, The Pears of New York, 1921.
Pyrus hybr.
Genus:
Pyrus
Family:
Rosaceae
Subfamily:
Amygdaloideae
Tribe:
Maleae
Subtribe:
Malinae
Nomen number:

300498
Comment:
interim designation used in GRIN for Pyrus hybrids which lack an acceptable binomial
Verified:
11/02/1990 by ARS Systematic Botanists.
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Description:
Chinese Sand Pear x P. communis

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Phenotype Data

CategoryDescriptorDescriptionValueSample SizeStudyInventoryAvailability
CYTOLOGICPLOIDY LEVELNumber of sets of chromosomes.2x - diploid PYRUS.PLOIDY.2013CPYR 2732 .001 PLNot Available