Verte-longue panachee
Pear
Verte-longue panachee
Origin/History
Verte-longue panachee is a striped variant of the Long Green of Autumn pear. It appears in Duhamel's Traité des Arbres Fruitiers (2:195, Pl. XXXVII) as early as 1768, and was subsequently figured in Annales de Pomologie Belge (1:65) in 1853. Coxe listed it in 1817 as entry No. 29 in his enumeration of pears, and Downing carried it in the 1869 edition of his Fruits and Fruit Trees of America.
Tree
The wood is striped with green and yellow bands (Hedrick). The leaves are occasionally striped with yellow (Hedrick).
Fruit
Verte-longue panachee differs from Long Green of Autumn in having the fruit striped with green and yellow bands (Hedrick). Downing characterizes this more briefly, describing the variety as differing from Long Green only in being striped with yellow.
Size
Not described in source.
Form
Not described in source.
Stem
Not described in source.
Cavity
Not described in source.
Calyx
Not described in source.
Basin
Not described in source.
Skin
Striped with green and yellow bands (Hedrick); striped with yellow (Downing).
Flesh/Flavor
Not described in source.
Core/Seeds
Not described in source.
Season
Not described in source. The relationship to "Long Green of Autumn" implies an autumn ripening season.
Uses
Not described in source.
Subtypes/Variants
Not described in source.
Other
Coxe's entry is a bare listing with no descriptive content:
No. 29. Verte longue Panachee'.
Description absent; variety present in variety-characteristic enumeration.
Book Sources
Described in 3 period pomological works
- Coxe, A View of the Cultivation of Fruit Trees (1817) — listed as Verte longue Panachee'
- Hedrick, The Pears of New York (1921)
- Downing, Fruits and Fruit Trees of America (1900) — listed as Long Green Panache
Nursery Catalog Sources
Found in 1 catalog (1900)
- Central Experimental Farm , Dominion Department of Agriculture, Agassiz, British Columbia (under test; Bulletin No. 3, Second Series) — 1900
View original book sources (3)
— William Coxe, A View of the Cultivation of Fruit Trees (1817)No. 29. Verte longue Panachee'.
— A.J. Downing, The Fruits and Fruit Trees of America (1900)Long Green Panache.
Culotte de Suisse. Verte longue panachée.
This differs from Long Green only in being striped with yellow.
— U.P. Hedrick, The Pears of New York (1921)Verte-longue panachee.
- Duhamel Trait. Arb. Fr. 2:195, Pl. XXXVII. 1768.
- Ann. Pom. Belge 1:65, fig. 1853. Long Green Panache.
- Downing Fr. Trees Am. 804. 1869.
A striped variety of Long Green of Autumn, differing from the original in having the wood and fruit striped with green and yellow bands, and in having the leaves occasionally striped with yellow.