Our Variety Assessment

Its strengths, growing requirements and the conditions in which it performs best.

Tsu Li is not a conventional round Asian pear: its elongated fruit looks more pear-shaped and contains fresh, crisp and aromatic flesh. Its greatest strength is storage, which can extend for several months while the flavour improves after picking. It ripens relatively late and benefits from a favourable autumn. The cultivar is self-sterile, with Ya Li traditionally used as its pollination partner.

Tsu Li

Price range: 26,50 € through 59,75 €

Tsu Li nashi tree, with good-sized refreshing fruit that ripens in September and keeps easily for up to 6 months.

Choose your tree form

1 year old grafted tree – approx. 1–2 m

Half-standard – 1 to 1.5 m stem

Standard tree – 1.8 m stem and over

Pear rootstock options

Calleryana - approx. 5m mature height

Farold 87 - approx 4.5m mature height

Kirchensaller – approx. 6 m mature height

Pyrodwarf – approx. 4 m mature height

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SKU: 13617 Category: Asian pear trees

Description

Tsu Li nashi tree produces good-sized fruit with good eating quality. The fruit is refreshing, fresh and aromatic.

Tsu Li ripens in September and stores very well, keeping easily for up to 6 months. Its eating quality improves during storage.

This variety is not very prone to disease, although nashi trees are naturally more sensitive to fire blight than pear trees.

Flowering occurs in April, slightly before pear varieties that flower in mid-season, but the bloom periods overlap.

Tsu Li has one of the best storage capacities among nashi varieties.

Nashi is still a little-known fruit, but it deserves more attention for its refreshing character and aromatic flavour. The tree is also ornamental, with larger, glossier leaves than a pear tree and attractive bark.

We produce this grafted nashi tree on several rootstocks, which influence the final size of the mature tree. It is available in several tree forms depending on availability.

Variety characteristics

Variety origin

Old Chinese variety of Pyrus x bretschneideri, from Shandong in north-eastern China.

Origin

USDA zone

Flowering

Harvest period

Eating / keeping period

Use

Sweetness / acidity

Disease resistance

Self-fertility

Pollinator value

Ploidy

Origin and identity

Parentage

Selection of Pyrus x bretschneideri, exact parents unknown

Synonyms

Tse Li, Tsu-Li

Growth and adaptation

Vigour and habit

Medium to strong vigour, upright to spreading habit

Pollination

Compatible pollinating varieties

For reliable fruit set, plant at least one variety with a compatible flowering period nearby. Flowering period: 2 - early.

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Harvest calendar

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