Sans Peau
PearSans Peau
Origin/History
Of ancient and uncertain origin. The first certain French description was written by La Quintinye in 1690. The variety is also known as "Skinless," a descriptor referring to its characteristically thin skin.
Fruit
Size and Form: Below medium or small, ovate, more or less long but always regular in shape.
Skin: Exceedingly thin and slightly rough to the touch. Yellow-white in ground color, sprinkled with dots of darker green. Often washed with pale rose on the sun-exposed side, where the dots appear gray.
Flesh: Yellowish, coarse, melting, and watery.
Flavor and Juice: Juice is sufficient in quantity, saccharine, acidulous, and feebly perfumed. Classified as second quality.
Stem: Not described in source.
Cavity: Not described in source.
Calyx and Basin: Not described in source.
Core and Seeds: Not described in source.
Season
Ripens in August.
Uses
Not described in source.
Subtypes/Variants
Not described in source.
Other
Not described in source.
Book Sources
Described in 1 period pomological work
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— U.P. Hedrick, The Pears of New York (1921)Sans Peau.
- Duhamel Trait. Arb. Fr. 2:150, Pl. XIII. 1768. 2. Hogg Fruit Man. 644. 1884. Skinless. 3. Downing Fr. Trees Am. 856. 1869.
Of ancient and uncertain origin; the first certain French description was written by La Quintinye in 1690. Fruit below medium or small, ovate, more or less long but always regular; skin exceedingly thin, and slightly rough to the touch, yellow-white, sprinkled with dots of darker green and often washed with pale rose on the sun-exposed side on which the dots are gray; flesh yellowish, coarse, melting, watery; juice sufficient, saccharine, acidulous, feebly perfumed; second; Aug.