List of pear cultivars Facts for Kids

Over 3000 cultivars of the pear are known. The following is a list of the more common and important cultivars, with the year and place of origin (where documented) and an indication of whether the pears are for cooking, eating, or making perry. Those varieties marked agm have gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit.

Table of pears
Perry pears
Gallery
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Table of pears

Common name	Synonyms	Origin	First developed	Comment	Use
Abate Fetel	Abbé Fetel	France	1865 after 1865	a major cultivar in Italy	Eating
Alexander Lucas
Ambrosia
Ayers		United States		an interspecific P. communis× P. pyrifolia hybrid
Bambinella		Malta
Black Worcester		England		a cooking pear that keeps well	Cooking
Blake's Pride		United States	1965	derived from a cross of US 446 x US 505, made by H.J. Brooks
Blanquilla	'pera de agua' and 'blanquilla de Aranjuez', Spain
Bon Rouge				cultivar derived from a rare, spontaneous bud mutation of the green pear cultivar William’s Bon Chretien
Bosc				Good for eating, baking, cooking, broiling, especially poaching.
Beurré Hardy [fr]	Beurre Hardy	Boulogne-sur-Mer	1820 c. 1820-1830
Butirra Precoce Morettini	Beurré précoce Morettini [fr]	Florence, Italy	1956	cross between Coscia x Williams’ (Bartlett) made by Morettini
Carmen
Cascade
Catillac
Churchland
Clairgeau
Clapp's Favourite		Dorchester, Massachusetts	1860 c. 1860
Clara Frijs		thought to be from the village of Skensved	1858 c. 1858	major cultivar in Denmark
Concorde		England		a seedling of 'Conference' × 'Doyenné du Comice
Conference		Sawbridgeworth, Hertfordshire, England	1894
Corella		Barossa Valley in southern Australia by German settlers	1890 late 19th century
Coscia		Italy		very early maturing cultivar
Claude Blanchet		Vienne, Isère, France by M BLANCHET	1877		Random seedling
D'Anjou
Dessertnaja
Don Guindo		Spain		strong yellow, flavoured taste
Doyenné du Comice ("Comice")	Offered as "Royal Riviera Pears" by Harry & David	France		eating, especially with ripened cheeses, poorly suited to cooking
Dr. Jules Guyot
Duchess	Dyushes, Dushes	England	late 18th c.
Durondeau		Belgium	1820s
Earlibrite
Eden		Israel
Elektra
European (Pyrus communis)
Flemish Beauty	Fondante des Bois
Fondante d'Automne		France	1825 c. 1825	An old Flemish variety raised by Fievee at Maubeuge
Forelle
General Leclerc
Gerburg
Giffard
Glou Morceau		Belgium	1750
Gourmet		South Dakota		Medium sized sweet fruit with a firm and crisp texture. Pollen-sterile
Golden Spice				Small fruit, very hardy
Gorham		United States
Harobig
Harovin Sundown
Harrow Crisp
Harrow Delight		Canada
Harrow Gold
Harrow Red
Harrow Sweet		Canada
Harvest Queen
Hermann
Hortensia
Huntington
Isolda
Joséphine de Malines		Belgium		obtained by Esperen, pomologist and mayor of Malines in the 19th century; one of the best late season pears
Kieffer		United States		a hybrid of the Chinese "sand pear", P. pyrifolia and probably 'Bartlett'
La France		France
Lategale
Laxtons Superb'		England		no longer used due to high susceptibility to fireblight
Le Conte
Louise Bonne		Normandy, France	1790 late 1700s
Luscious		South Dakota		Small-medium Bartlett-like fruit. Pollen-sterile
Merton Pride		England	1941
Moonglow
Chinese White Pear (Pyrus bretschneideri)	Nashi
Nashi (Pyrus pyrifolia)	Asian/Japanese/Chinese/Korean/Taiwanese/sand pear			Kosui Hosui Nijisseiki
Kosui (幸水) (Pyrus pyrifolia subsp. culta)	Russet apple pear	National Institute of Fruit Tree Science, Japan	1959 c. 1959	the most important cultivar in Japan), ('Russet pears')	Cider, cooking, eating
Hosui (豊水) (Pyrus pyrifolia subsp. culta)	'Russet pears', Russet apple pear	National Institute of Fruit Tree Science, Japan	1972 c. 1972		Cider, cooking, eating
Nijisseiki (二十世紀) name means "20th century", also spelled 'Nijusseiki' (Pyrus pyrifolia subsp. culta)	Green pears	Matsudo, Chiba, Japan	1888 c. 1888	Green apple pear	Cider, cooking, eating
Onward		National Fruit Trials in Wisley, Surrey	1947	Laxton's Superb x Doyenne du Comice	Eating
Orcas
Orient		United States		an interspecific P. communis × P. pyrifolia hybrid
Passe Crassane		France		A variety developed by M. Boisbunel, a nurseryman from Rouen, France
Packham	'Packham's Triumph'	Australia	1896
Patten		Iowa		Large tender and juicy fruit
Parker				Large Bartlett-like fruit
Parsonage		New Rochelle, New York	1857 c. 1857
Pineapple		United States		an interspecific P. communis × P. pyrifolia hybrid
Rocha	Pêra Rocha	Portugal
Rosemarie		South Africa		bred from Bon Rouge and Forelle
Seckel		United States, Philadelphia area	1690 late 17th century	still produced, naturally resistant to fireblight)
Starkrimson	Red Clapp's	Michigan	1939	a red-skinned bud mutation of Clapp's Favourite. Its thick, smooth skin is a uniform, bright and intense red, and its creamy flesh is sweet and aromatic.
Stinking Bishop
Siberian				Extremely hardy with inedible fruit, used as a pollinator
Summer Beauty
Summercrisp		Minnesota		Crisp texture is similar to Asian Pears, medium sized mildly sweet fruit
Sudduth
Taylor's gold		New Zealand		a russeted mutant clone of 'Comice'
Tosca
Turandot
Uta
Ure		Morden, Manitoba		Juicy, small-medium fruit
Vicar of Winkfield		England		a green skinned cooking pear	cooking
Virgouleuse
Williams	Williams' Bon Chrétien Bartlett (United States name) Red Bartlett (United States)			Many are yellow, as in upper image. There are three major red-skinned mutant clones: 'Max Red Bartlett', 'Sensation Red Bartlett', 'Rosired Bartlett' Good for eating, baking, cooking. In a recipe specifying apples, substituting one of these pears can give joy.
Winter Nelis

Perry pears

Perry pears may be far too sour or bitter for fresh eating, but are used for making perry, the pear equivalent of the alcoholic beverage apple cider. Some pears (especially older ones from the U.S. and Canada) are used for both cider and eating purposes.