ARS just updated some infos on Lantai Jululi. From the description below, it is the same as Fragrant pear from the Asian Market. I got about 10 cluster of flowers on my two trees after 4 years of bark grafting them. They sure are very woody trees. I will update later this fall with photos and taste.
Tony
Collected as P. sinkiangensis. Top quality pear, yellow- green skin, sweet, crisp, juicy, aromatic. – notes from Mel Westwood (ca.1990)
PI 654949
Pyrus sinkiangensis T. T. Yu
‘Lantai-juju Li’
Donated from:
Xinjiang China
Maintained by:
Natl. Germplasm Repository - Corvallis
NPGS received:
05-Feb-1990
PI assigned:
2008
Inventory volume:
217
Backup location:
Life form:
Pedigree:
Improvement status:
Landrace
Reproductive uniformity:
Form received:
Cutting
Accession names and identifiers
Lantai-juju Li
Type:
Cultivar name
Luntai Jujuli
Type:
Cultivar name
Comment:
name as received
ASIAN CULTIVAR
Type:
Site identifier
Group:
CROPTYPE
CPYR 2765
Type:
Site identifier
Group:
LOCAL
Comment:
Corvallis local number
Q 27967
Type:
Quarantine identifier
T 27967
Type:
Inventory
Web Availability Note
pathogen issue, temporarily unavailable
Narrative
Collected as P. sinkiangensis. Top quality pear, yellow- green skin, sweet, crisp, juicy, aromatic. – notes from Mel Westwood (ca.1990)
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Old Name
New Name
RE-IDENT
20 Jun 2008
Pyrus spp.
Pyrus x sinkiangensis
Source History
• Accession was donated. 05-Feb-1990. China
Donors:
1.Liao, Ming Kang, Academy of Agricultural Sciences
I will be very interested in how they come out. I had to move the variety a few years ago since my pear stand was too crowded. It still has not fruited in the new spot, and I have been growing the variety for almost 10 years now. I got some fruit on one of my grocery market fruit seedlings, it was tasty but gritty. I have one more seedling that will fruit for the first time this year.
Some of my Asian pears I grafted last year have fruit this spring, but my lanti didn’t bloom. It sounds like I may have to wait a couple of years. I would love to hear your opinion of the fruit if you get some this year tony.
I will take some photos. If it is a true Fragrant pear then you also have a very good Asian pear in your possession. Sweet, Super crunchy and very aromatic.
I’ve tasted the Fragrant pear bought from the market. It’s juicy, crunchy and aromatic as Tony said. I do hope that what you got is true to its namesake, Tony.
Last Week, I grafted the 3 scions you sent and they still look plum and green as of this morning’s garden walk. Hopefully they take!
Please do post the taste test if you got them to fruit this year. I’m so looking forward to reading about it…
I got at least 15 varieties of Asian pears and 8 or so of Euro pears and some Cleveland flowering pears in the neighborhood that will overlap blooming to pollinate the Lantai Jululi. I think if you have a pear tree planting on the north side of the house due to the cooler temperature and that will give you an extra week or so of delaying blooming to help pollinating with late blooming pear trees.
I don’t think I will put another pear in the north side of the house since that section is already landscaped. I forgot to take into account of the neighborhood’s Bradford, Cleveland, etc. It may not be a block buster pollination but maybe it’s going to be okay. Time will tell…
But most importantly at this moment is the scions take!
I forgot to update you that I grafted your 2 FP scions onto one branch of my Shinsikei and both scions took off to more than 3 feet each last year. This year, I pruned off one of them close to the stump and grafted onto other seedling projects. I also shorten the other lanky branch as a general tree shaping. I don’t think I would see any cluster this year but to grow them bigger for next year’s possible fruiting…
Lantai jululi has been very late to leaf out again. In the center of the other grafts on this tree you can see how late it is! That could be very beneficial to someone avoiding spring frosts in a climate not suitable to growing pears! That little dab of green is the graft union. Its in the very top of an improved kieffer. Note that all other pears are showing some green or blooming!
