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open-pollinated
Astiana
Ayers Creek selection from seed collected near Asti, with large pleated meaty fruit, few seeds and assertive high-acid flavour.
- Shape
- Pear
- Fruit type
- Plum / Roma
- Growth habit
- Indeterminate / cordon
- Where it grows
- Outdoor
- Typical fruit weight
- 283 g (907 g)
- Days to maturity
- 78 days (75–80)
- Sweetness
- Medium
- Flavour intensity
- Very high
- Productivity
- High
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- Support needed
- Substantial
- Growing notes
- Farm-selected population shows some genetic variation in earliness and fruit colour/shape. Dry locules and dense flesh make it especially useful for sauce.
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