Description

• Butirra Rosata Morettini Pear Harvest: About 6-7 days before Williams’ – that is, the end Jan beginning Feb 1999
• High yielding Pollination: Mid-season, considerable parthenocarpy, Butirra Precoce Morettini, Passe Crassane
• Tree: High vigour
• Round oval pointed leaf, medium small, very small serrations
• Fruit: Medium large, turbinate, rounded shoulders, short thick stalk
• Greenish yellow with bright red blush, russet spotting and streaks from calyx
• Good flavour, coarser texture than Williams’ or B
• Precoce M., but handles better Storage: Medium core breakdown, short storage Usage: EatingOrigin: Coscia x Beurré Clairgeau, bred and introduced 1960 by Morettini, Florence, Italy