Details for: PI 706716, Pyrus communis L., 'Marechal de Cour'


Summary Data
Taxonomy:
Pyrus communis L.
Cultivar:
'Marechal de Cour'
Origin:
Donated – France
Received by NPGS:
Feb 2025
Improvement Status:
Cultivar
Form Received:
Scion
Life Form:
Tree
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Core Passport Data
Taxonomy:
Pyrus communis L.
Cultivar:
'Marechal de Cour'
Origin:
Donated – France
Received by NPGS:
Feb 2025
Improvement Status:
Cultivar
Form Received:
Scion
Life Form:
Tree
Source History
Donated
February 2025.
France

February 2025.
Vermont, United States

Donor(s):
Accession Names and Identifiers
'Marechal de Cour'
Type: Cultivar name
Group: PEAR

CPYR 3167
Type: Site identifier
Group: LOCAL
Corvallis local number

Narrative
Maréchal de Cour. 1. Leroy Dict. Pom. 2:390, fig. 1869. 2. Hogg Fruit Man, 612. 1884.
A seedling of Van Mons of which he sent grafts to Alexandre Bivort, five months before his death, in April, 1842. Fruit large, sometimes very large, oblong-pyriform or obtuse-turbinate, one side always smaller than the other, thickly encrusted with russet so that but little of the yellow ground is visible; flesh white, semi-fine, melting, gritty at center, extremely juicy, sugary, vinous, perfumed; first; Sept. to Nov.
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
Comment:
probably of hybrid origin
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
LanguageNameAlternate namenoteseqCitation
Englishpear  1Wiersema, J. H. & B. León. 1999. World economic plants: a standard reference CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL.
Frenchpoirier  2Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants
GermanBirnbaum  2Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants
GermanBirne  2Reichel, S. 1998. pers. comm. Note: re. German common names
GermanBirnenbaum  2Reichel, S. 1998. pers. comm. Note: re. German common names
Italianpera  2Hanelt, P., ed. 2001. Mansfeld's encyclopedia of agricultural and horticultural crops. Volumes 1-6
Italianpero  2Hanelt, P., ed. 2001. Mansfeld's encyclopedia of agricultural and horticultural crops. Volumes 1-6
Japanese Rōmajiseiyō-nashi  2Ohwi, J. 1965. Flora of Japan (Engl. ed.).
Portuguesepereira  2Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants
Spanishpera  2Hanelt, P., ed. 2001. Mansfeld's encyclopedia of agricultural and horticultural crops. Volumes 1-6
Spanishperal  2Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants
Swedishpäron  2Aldén, B., S. Ryman, & M. Hjertson. 2012. Svensk Kulturväxtdatabas, SKUD (Swedish Cultivated and Utility Plants Database; online resource)
Transcribed Chinesexi yang li as Pyrus communis var. sativa2Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. 1994-. Flora of China (English edition). Note: = Pyrus communis var. sativa
Transcribed Koreanbyeongbaenamu  2Mun-Chan, B. et al. 1986. A checklist of the Korean cultivated plants. Kulturpflanze 34:122.
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