Hosui Pear
A new cultivar bred by the Fruit Tree Research Station of the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries of Japan, with parents (Kikusui × Yakumo) × Yakumo. There is scattered cultivation in Jiangsu and Zhejiang. It is an excellent new Japanese cultivar that can be grown in the humid south.
The fruit is medium-sized, with an average single-fruit weight of 196.5 grams in the Xingcheng Pear Resource Nursery, and is nearly round. The fruit stalk is long, and the sepals fall off. The skin is brown, and the fruit surface is rough. The flesh is yellow-white, the core is medium-large, the texture is fine and crisp, juicy, and sweet. It contains 11.4% soluble solids, 9.0% soluble sugars, 0.12% titratable acid, and 3.85 mg/100 g vitamin C. The quality is upper-medium.
The tree vigor is relatively strong, and the sprouting ability and branching ability are also strong. It bears fruit 3-4 years after planting, mainly on short fruit branches, and medium and long fruit branches and axillary flower buds can also bear fruit. In the Xingcheng area, it blooms in early May and ripens in mid-August.