I found a reference to “Limonera” (or Lemonera) pears grown in Spain but have not been able to find out much beyond the name. Does anyone know anything about it?
A very common thing with pears is to sell them as PDO where a few specific varieties are grown in a region and marketed as such. For example, Pera de Lleida grows Blanquilla and Conference along with “Limonera” which fortuitously looks a lot like Forelle. Home - DOP Pera de Lleida
I also found a pear from Austria named Hirschbirne which appears interesting.
I have both Lemon PI 541215 and Limonka in the database. Limonka is a Ukrainian variety which takes about 9 years to come into bearing, produces abundantly, but is mediocre flavored and tends to fall apart when cooked. I don’t know if Lemon and Limonka are the same variety. I do not see anything that suggests either is the same as Limonera.
Limonera, Blanquilla, and Conference are examples of pears grown as PDO (protected designation of origin) Limonera is a different variety from Conference.
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Lol, I don’t have the perry pears growing. I just added them to the database listing. Clark posted “here are more for the database” and I replied they are already in the list and can be sorted by use for perry. I decided to post it for public look-see a few minutes ago in the Pear Identity thread.
Perry pears are limited here. I found roughly 20% of the pears on that list in regional nurseries. Some popular varieties such as the huffcaps and blood pears are what I see most. As an aside, Summer Blood Birne is a decent perry pear, especially when mixed with both sweeter and more acidic/tart varieties.
If you read some of the articles on Clark’s link, you will find that many of the perry pears are considered endangered and rarely propagated.
I’ll drop this link to an Austrian old variety repository here. It’s only a bunch of varieties in your grand scheme, but it may be at least interesting, if not helpful. The info provided is quite detailed from synonyms and origin, pollinators to the shape and size of stems, ideal growing conditions, etc… (clink on the group "edible&cooking pears, and on a variety -each has a pdf file).
