Details for: PI 279327, Pyrus communis L., 'Baronne Leroy'

Summary Data

Taxonomy:

Pyrus communis L.

Cultivar:

'Baronne Leroy'

Origin:

Developed – France

Maintained:

National Clonal Germplasm Repository

Received by NPGS:

20 Jan 1987

PI Assigned:

1962

Improvement Status:

Cultivar

Form Received:

Cutting

Life Form:

Tree

Life Habit:

Tree

Inventory Volume:

170
View original Plant Inventory data in pdf format

Availability

This accession is not available. Contact site for status.

National Clonal Germplasm Repository

Images (2 total. Click on image for more.)

Core Passport Data

Taxonomy:

Pyrus communis L.

Cultivar:

'Baronne Leroy'

Origin:

Developed – France

Maintained:

National Clonal Germplasm Repository

Received by NPGS:

20 Jan 1987

PI Assigned:

1962

Improvement Status:

Cultivar

Form Received:

Cutting

Life Form:

Tree

Life Habit:

Tree

Source History

Developed

1859.
France
Comment: Cultivar originated ca 1859

Donated

20 January 1987.
Maryland, United States
Comment: Received from France to Glenn Dale to NCGR-Corvallis
Donor(s):

Parliman, Bruce J., USDA-ARS Fruit Laboratory

Accession Names and Identifiers

'Baronne Leroy'

Type: Cultivar name

CPYR 1655

Type: Site identifier

Group: LOCAL

Corvallis local number

EUROPEAN CULTIVAR

Type: Site identifier

Group: CROPTYPE

Narrative

Origin in France before 1859. Said to be a seedling of Bonne de Prentemps. Fruit small, roundish with large stiff stem. Skin tough, greenish in color with some russet, sometimes blushed on sunny side, unattractive appearance. Flesh buttery, very juicy, some grit at center. Spicy, vinous, Seckel-like flavor. Equal to Seckel in dessert quality. Midseason. Tree vigorous and productive. Good semi-dwarf on quince. Moderately susceptible to blight. -- H. Hartman, Oregon Ag. Experiment Station, 1957.

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
DISEASE	FRUIT_SCAB	RATING OF DAMAGE CAUSED BY FRUIT SCAB	2 - (1 = NO DAMAGE, 9 = SEVERE DAMAGE)		PYRUS.CORVALLIS.2005.FRUITSCAB	CPYR 1655 .001 PL	Not Available