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Humbug pear trees

Pick: Late-season    Flowering group: 3       Uses: Eat fresh | Cookery 

A modern pear variety from the Ukraine, notable for its distinctive green and yellow stiped skin. Young shoots also have a variegated appearance in winter.

The relatively thick skin allows this pear to kept in a cold store for use in the winter.

Order now for delivery September 2013 onwards

Humbug pear trees for sale

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Pot-grown fruit trees (Delivery start September 2013)

Large (3m - 4m)2-year bush-trained - 12L pot - Quince A rootstock £42.00

Bare-root fruit trees (Deliveries start November 2013)

Large (3m - 4m)1-year - Bare-root - Quince A rootstock £32.00

**All prices include delivery. We offer a discount on orders of multiple bare-root trees for delivery at the same time - this will be shown at the checkout.

Delivery period: Pot-grown trees can be delivered from September onwards. Bare-root trees can be delivered from mid-November onwards. Within those periods you can specify your preferred month of delivery during the checkout process. It is best to order as soon as you can to ensure items are reserved for you.

*Mature heights: Height shown is the approximate height of the tree when mature (after 5-10 years), not the height when supplied. See photos of trees as supplied. Actual mature heights may vary considerably dependent on your local conditions and training and pruning regime - see our Tree Height Calculator.

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Summary features of Humbug

Growing

Uses

Identification

  • Country of origin: Ukraine
  • Period of origin: 1950 - 1999
  • Fruit colour: Varigated
  • Leaf colour: Green

Climate



Pollination guide for Humbug

Humbug is in flowering group 3. Humbug is self-sterile and needs to be pollinated by another tree of a different variety nearby. Since it flowers in the middle of the blossom season it can be pollinated by most other pear trees.



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Historical details

From the Ukraine.



Botanical name

Pyrus communis Humbug




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