Durondeau
FRUIT
Color: beautiful bronze to brick red with brown rust stains around the whole pear.
Size: large to very large.
Shape: elongate and regular.
Taste: good. Very juicy, sweet-sour white flesh.
TREE
The trees are recognizable by the brown-red wood.
Growth: fairly strong.
Flowering: mid-season bloom.
Productivity: early fertility, good and regular.
ORIGIN
Tongre-Notre Dame, Belgium, 1811.
POLLINATORS
Beurré Hardy, Bonne Louise, Gieser Wildeman