Unknown Pear

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They remind me a bit of this unidentified pear that I am growing. It is also not very good. Mine did not separate nicely from the tree.

Pear ID help (sold as Patten)

Maybe someone might recognize this pear. It was sold to me as Patten pear, but I think it’s not. It doesn’t look like the pics of Patten on the USDA site. USDA says Patten is a very late pear. These pears didn’t seem terribly late as I picked them Sept 10 in south central Nebraska and about the same time as some red bartletts (Olympic Giant was picked Oct 1 but that was a few days too late). These pears do not separate from the tree when flipped to a 90 when ripe. Instead, the stem will pull ri…