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Abate Fetel

Price range: 26,50 € through 59,75 €

A highly regarded Italian pear variety producing elongated fruit with sweet juicy flesh.

Choose your tree form

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

Half-standard – 1 to 1.5 m stem

Low-stem tree – approx. 60 cm stem

Standard tree – 1.8 m stem and over

Pear rootstock options

Kirchensaller – approx. 6 m mature height

Pyrodwarf – approx. 4 m mature height

Quince BA29 – approx. 3 m mature height

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Tree size guide

Tree size guide: maiden, half-standard and standard fruit trees

SKU: 4018 Categories: Dessert pear trees, Pear trees

Description

Abate Fetel Pear Tree is a famous Italian pear variety appreciated for its distinctive elongated fruit and excellent flavour quality. The flesh is fine, juicy and sweet, with a delicate aromatic character highly valued for fresh eating.

This vigorous and productive variety produces large elegant pears with good storage potential. The fruit ripens relatively late and is widely appreciated in commercial orchards thanks to its attractive appearance and high market quality.

Abate Fetel performs best in warm sunny conditions and is particularly valued for its refined texture, productivity and excellent dessert qualities.

Variety characteristics

Variety origin

French variety bred by Abbé Fétel in the Rhône, after 1865 or around 1866, then widely developed in Italy.

Origin

Period of origin

USDA zone

Flowering

Harvest period

September 15-30

Eating / keeping period

Use

Sweetness / acidity

Disease resistance

Self-fertility

Pollinator value

Good pollinizer

Ploidy

Origin and identity

Parentage

Seedling or hybridisation from local varieties, exact parents unknown

Synonyms

Abbé Fétel, Abbate Fetel

Growth and adaptation

Vigour and habit

Medium to low vigour, upright to semi-upright habit

Quince compatibility

Good compatibility with quince rootstock.

Disease behaviour

Scab

Moderately susceptible to scab

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