Red Clapp's European Pear Tree

Introduced: 1970, Michigan

The Red Clapp's Favorite pear tree was discovered in the 1950s as a "sport" which produced a branch of red pears on a green Clapp's Favorite pear tree in a Missouri orchard. The fruit is medium to large in size with a deep rosy red-orange skin and white, fine-grained flesh and can be eaten crisp off the tree. The tree is large and productive, and its dramatic fruit makes it an attractive landscape feature.

Blooms Early-Mid Season

Ripens Mid August

Best Uses – Fresh Eating, Keeping, Baking

Dwarf root stock: Old Home 87

1/2” Caliper +/-

4 foot tall +/-

Final height of 12 feet +/-

Will mature in 6-7 years

Pear Tree Notes:

Plant where trees will get sun for most of the day in a well drained soil. Dig a hole large enough to accommodate the roots, don’t add fertilizers or compost when filling the hole, save those for a top-dressing once the tree leafs out. Always protect your new trees with a “mouse guard” either a wrap from a garden center or a tube made from hardware cloth. Fruit thinning will help maintain annual bearing and fruit size, and it will prevent limb breakage from overcropping. Olympic is not self-fertile, and it will need a pollination partner.

PICK TREES THAT BLOOM AT THE SAME TIME FOR PROPER POLLINATION AND FRUITING!