Description

• Corella Pear Harvest: Late Description: Tree is moderately vigourous, upright
• Smallish oval leaf with attenuate tip, dull dark green, very small serrations
• Fruit is obtuse pyriform, small and skin has greeny yellow base with red over half the surface or more Disease Status: Moderately resistant to scab, blast and mites
• Chilling Requirement: Fairly low
• Pollination: Early season, need early bloomers to set well, can set parthenocarpically, Red Face, San Giovanni, Ya Li, Tsu Li
• Taste: Tender, soft, white flesh, juicy with some flavour
• Storage: Long
• Uses: Eating Background: Probably a seedling of Forelle – developed by German settlers in Barossa Valley, South Australia
• They named the pears after the colourful Australian Corella parrot