Luojiang Golden Flower Pear

Luojiang Golden Flower Pear

　　Luojiang Golden Flower Pear is a variety of the white pear group. The fruit is inverted-oval in shape, typically weighing around 450 grams per piece, with the largest fruits reaching up to 1500 grams. The skin is yellowish-green and turns golden after storage. The lenticels are large, sparse, and brown; the fruit stem is long, thick, and the calyx cavity is deep and wide, with sepals that mostly fall off but sometimes remain. The flesh is snow-white, fine-textured, crisp, and juicy, with soluble solids content between 11–14%. The core is extremely small, making the edible portion as high as 84.3%. The juice content is abundant, about 85%, with 6.97–8.24 grams of monosaccharides, 0.87–0.98 grams of disaccharides, approximately 0.1 gram of fruit acid, and 4.61–4.93 mg of Vitamin C per 100 grams of juice. The sugar-to-acid ratio ranges from 79.94–84.9:1. It has low stone cell content, a pure sweet flavor, rich aroma, and is of premium quality, ripening in mid-August. The fruit contains very little tannin, and the flesh remains white for a long time even when exposed to air after peeling—an outstanding trait not commonly found in most pear varieties.

The quality of Luojiang Golden Flower Pear is excellent, with a waxy skin that makes it highly resistant to storage. It has won multiple provincial and higher-level awards for high-quality fruit. In 1985, it was designated as a premium white pear variety by the Ministry of Agriculture. In 1999, it was recognized as one of Sichuan Province’s top ten famous and high-quality fruits by the Sichuan Provincial Department of Agriculture. By 2003, the county had over 10 million Golden Flower Pear trees, yielding 15 million kilograms of fruit. Luojiang has become the “hometown of Golden Flower Pear” in China.