Description

• Harvest: 2-3 weeks after Shinsui, and after Kosui, 140-155 days after full bloom
• Description: Medium to low vigour, spreading with wide branch angles, spur bearer, susceptible to fire blight. Ovate leaf with medium serrations, young leaves and shoots are whitely pubescent. Fruit is r ound, oblate, medium, can be small if too many on tree, need to thin to one per spur or two spurs. Yellowish green clear skin, subject to abrasion and marking under certain conditions, cracks badly after heavy continuous rain like Kikusui. Blossom and
• Pollination: Mid season, can set very heavily, up to 9 or 10 per flower cluster, 2 or 3 times, white medium flowers, tend to be pointy in bud. Hosui, Shinsui, Packham’s Triumph, (Chojuro, but may be too early for Nijisseiki),  NOT  Kikusui. Chilling
• Requirement: Moderate
• Taste: Good eating quality, medium sugar, high acid
• Storage: Up to six months cool storage
• Uses: Eating
• Background: Japan, chance seedling found on a rubbish heap in 1898 by Mr Kakunosuke Matsudo at Ishii, Chiba,  P. pyrifolia