Packhams pear

/PA-kumz pehrs/
[English]

A variety of green, bumpy pear raised by Charles Henry Packham in Molong in New South Wales around 1896 as a cross bnetween Uvedale's St Germain and Williams Bon Chrétien and introduced into the United Kingdom early in the 1900s. If grown in the UK it is picked from late September to early October and eaten a month later. It has pale yellow flesh with a slightly musky flavour.