I have around a 100 varieties of red fleshed apples in addition to the red
fleshed pears listed below.
The majority of the red fleshed pears do not keep at all but when you eat
them off the tree they are good. Sort of musky if that could be a taste
description. Verbelu keeps longer for me than the others and we have actually
made perry (pear cider) from that one.
Bloodpeer has not fruited for me yet so I am not sure how it will turn out.
The flowers are white but not all red fleshed apples have pink or red
blossoms either. Discovery and Diana have white blossoms with pinkish red
flesh.
Derek
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From: Matt Demmon <mdemmon@gmail.com>
To: nafex mailing list at ibiblio <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Fri, Jun 7, 2013 11:15 am
Subject: Re: [nafex] Red fleshed cooking pear
Derek,
I would be interested in your comments on flavor, disease resistance, and
general characteristics of any of these if you have the time. I'm
fascinated by red-fleshed apples, and did not realize there were so many
pears with this characteristic. Are the flowers white, or as in apples with
red-flesh, are the flowers tending more towards pink/dark pink/red?
I live in SE MI, and I expect I could grow most of the same pears you
could. I have a small orchard, but I have a few of everything, and I would
consider red-fleshed pear to be in almost a separate category, as different
as european pears are from asians.
-matt
z5 se MI
On Fri, Jun 7, 2013 at 10:53 AM, <derekcs2005@aol.com> wrote: