Details for: CPYR 2735, Pyrus communis L., CPYR 2735

Summary Data

Taxonomy:

Pyrus communis L.

Top Name:

CPYR 2735

Origin:

Collected – Idaho, United States

Maintained:

Historic Record

Received by NPGS:

09 Mar 2001

Improvement Status:

Cultivar

Form Received:

Scion

Availability

This is historical information about this accession. It no longer exists and can not be requested.

There are no images for this accession.

Core Passport Data

Taxonomy:

Pyrus communis L.

Top Name:

CPYR 2735

Origin:

Collected – Idaho, United States

Maintained:

Historic Record

Received by NPGS:

09 Mar 2001

Improvement Status:

Cultivar

Form Received:

Scion

Source History

Collected

Idaho, United States
Elevation: 0m.

Donated

09 March 2001.
Washington, United States

Donor(s):

Bienz, D. R., Washington State University

Accession Names and Identifiers

CPYR 2735

Type: Site identifier

Group: LOCAL

Corvallis local number

EUROPEAN CULTIVAR

Type: Site identifier

Group: CROPTYPE

Idaho Heritage Pear

Type: Site identifier

An old cultivar whos name is unknown.

National Clonal Germplasm Repository

Narrative

Bud-sticks came from one of two pear trees that survived in the small orchard my grandfather planted about 1900 on his homestead in the northwest part of Bear Lake Valley in extreme southeast Idaho. The site is at 6,000 feet elevation and has long cold winters with heavy snow. I know of at least two winters when temperatures fell to -45 degrees F. So far as I know these are the only pear trees that survived near that area. When I was a boy, these trees produced fruit consistently year after year. The two trees appeared to be the same, so I assume they are self-compatible. They have also survived considerable neglect, especially drought, during quite a few of the last 40 years. The area gets only 14 inches of moisture that comes mostly during the winter. They were irrigated their first 60 years and some years since. I rescued a few buds from one of the trees about six years ago and grafted it into an Anjou in Pullman. It ripens in late summer shortly after Bartlett. My stepmother used to can these pears and considered the canned product from them superior to the product she obtained from Bartlett. They are fair quality but not as delicious as Bartlett in my estimation. In Pullman the leaves stayed bright green with no brown patches, much healthier in appearance than either d'Anjou or Bartlett. The pears must be of a cultivar being commonly grown in 1900 although I do not recognize them. If I remember the story, Grandpa bought them from a traveling salesman who also sold him several cultivars of apples, plums, and sour cherries. Some of the apples 'Wealthy', 'Gravenstein', 'Astrachan', 'Yellow Transparent', 'Strawberry Crabapple', and 'Duchess' as I remember, also survived in that orchard for many years. -- Darrel R. Bienz, 2001.

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.

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