Our Variety Assessment

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

Beurré Lebrun is a pear we would select for its exceptionally fine, juicy flesh with almost no noticeable grit. Its lightly musky aroma gives it more personality than a merely sweet pear. The tree is hardy, fertile and only slightly susceptible to scab. Harvest timing is the main difficulty, as fruit can begin breaking down internally soon after the skin turns yellow.

Beurre Lebrun

Price range: 26,50 € through 59,75 €

Beurre Lebrun is a high-quality French mid-season dessert pear, with a fine sweet 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

Farold 87 - approx 4.5m mature height

Kirchensaller – approx. 6 m mature height

Pyrodwarf – approx. 4 m mature height

Quince BA29 – approx. 3 m mature height

Quince BA29 with Comice interstem – approx. 3 m mature height

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SKU: 1382 Categories: Dessert pear trees, Pear trees

Description

Beurre Lebrun is a high-quality French dessert pear, with a fine sweet flesh. It ripens in late August / early September – watch for the colour changing from green to golden-green.

This variety was raised in the 1850s by Mr Guenoit, a nurseryman from Troyes in eastern France. It is a popular French garden variety, and also known as Le Brun.