pear 'Souvenir du Congrès'

A compact, upright tree with large, shiny, oval leaves and white blossom in spring. The medium-to-large, long, narrow, dessert fruit have smooth, pale green to light yellow skin, with variable russetting and often flushed and striped with red. Flesh is pale yellow, tender sweet and juicy with a musky flavour. Pick and use in early autumn. Not self-fertile, in pollination group 3; produces heavy crops