BREEDING PROCESS AND CHARACTERISTICS OF ‘AKEMIZU’, A NEW JAPANESE PEAR CULTIVAR

Japanese pear (Pyrus pyrifolia Nakai) cultivar ‘Akemizu’ was bred from a cross of ‘Shinsui’ × ‘42-6’ at the Kanagawa Horticultural Experimental Station. ‘Akemizu’ is an early-maturing cultivar which is harvested a week to ten days earlier than ‘Shinsui’. The skin is yellowish red brown, and the fruit is round, averaging 320 g.
The fruit features a Brix of roughly 13%, with slight acidity and fine, fresh taste.
The fruit keeps its quality well for five days at room temperature.
The ‘Akemizu’ tree has rather few axillary flower buds.
It flowers early, roughly during the same period as ‘Niitaka’.

International Symposium on Asian Pears, Commemorating the 100th Anniversary of Nijisseiki Pear

K. Shibata, K. Kawashima, M. Hishitani

Pyrus pyrifolia, cultivar, breeding, characteristics

https://doi.org/10.17660/ActaHortic.2002.587.43