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Orange Tulipee

Pear

Orange Tulipee

Origin / History

An old French pear grown in the south of France. Known to have been cultivated for some three centuries. Described in the Jardinier François in 1665. Hedrick (1921) judges it "not worth growing today."

Tree

Not described in source.

Fruit

Size: Medium and often below (Hedrick); pretty large (Downing).

Form: Oval-pyriform (Downing); globular-ovate or turbinate-rounded, with one side larger than the other (Hedrick).

Stem: Not described in source.

Cavity: Not described in source.

Calyx: Not described in source.

Basin: Not described in source.

Skin: Thick and rough, green or yellow-green, shaded in the sun with brownish red or red-brown. The side away from the sun bears numerous carmine streaks and marks.

Dots: Large, gray, scaly, sprinkled over the surface.

Flesh and flavor: Flesh white, melting (Downing) or semi-fine and semi-melting (Hedrick), more or less granular around the core. Juice agreeable (Downing); sufficient, saccharine, slightly astringent, with a slight perfume of fennel (Hedrick). Quality third (Hedrick).

Core and seeds: Not described in source.

Season

September.

Uses

Sold in Paris at a very low price.

Subtypes / Variants

Not described in source.

Other

Downing's entry is marked "(Lind.)". Hedrick cites Duhamel, Trait. Arb. Fr. 2:202, Pl. XLI (1768), and Leroy, Dict. Pom. 488, fig. (1869).

Book Sources

Described in 2 period pomological works

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Orange Tulipee.

Poire aux Mouches. Striped Orange. Tuliped or Fly-Pear. Great Orange.

Fruit pretty large, oval pyriform, green, shaded in sun with brownish red. Flesh melting, juice agreeable. September. (Lind.)

— A.J. Downing, The Fruits and Fruit Trees of America (1900)

Orange Tulipee.

  1. Duhamel Trait. Arb. Fr. 2:202, Pl. XLI. 1768.
  2. Leroy Dict. Pom. 488, fig. 1869.

An old French pear grown in the south of France and sold in Paris at a very low price. It is known to have been cultivated for some three centuries, but is not worth growing today. Described in the Jardinier François in 1665.

Fruit medium and often below, globular-ovate, or turbinate-rounded, with one side larger than the other; skin thick and rough, yellow-green, sprinkled with large, gray, scaly dots, and well colored with red-brown on the side next the sun, and numerous carmine streaks and marks on the other side; flesh white, semi-fine and semi-melting, more or less granular around the core; juice sufficient, saccharine, slightly astringent, with a slight perfume of fennel; third; Sept.

— U.P. Hedrick, The Pears of New York (1921)
Androgyne Beurre Tendre Bigarrade Briel'sche Orange Peer Briel'sche Pomeranzen Birne Brutte-Bonne Die Hässliche Gute Die Schlechte Anjouer Gelbe Rot und Grüngestreifte Gestreifte Pomeranzen Great Orange Grosse-Orange d'Automne Guter Wildling Häsliche Gute (Die) Jaune Panachee de Rouge et de Vert Jaune Panachee de Rouge et de Yert Königliche Herbst Königliche Herbst B Laide Bonne Mouches (P. aux) Mousses (P. aux) Muscat de Savoie Muse d'Ete Mücken Birne Oignon de Vernon Orange Bigarade Orange Royale Tulipee Orange d'Automne Tulipee Orange de Saintonge Poire aux Mouches Reate Reatebirne Reine d'Angleterre Royale d'Automne Schlechte Anjouerbirne Striped Orange Tuliped or Fly-Pear Tulpen Birne Vilaine d'Anjou Vilaine de la Reale Vilaine de la Reate Xaintonger Birne