Fruit Tree Research Station, Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and

Itaru Kozaki

Mitsuo Omura

Yutaka Machida

Teruo Kozono

Yoshihiko Sato

Isao Shimura

Ichiro Kajiura

Kitsuo Kanato

Kanetsugu Seike

Osamu Kishimoto

Tsutomu Chiba

Kazuo Kotobuji

Disclosed herein is a Japanese pear tree which has a moderate vigor and an easily maintained moderate spur development, is resistant to black spot disease, and as productive as `Hosui`. The tree is cross-incompatible with `Kosui` and is assumed to have an S.sub.4 S.sub.5 genotype, and has brown young leaves and white large flowers which have a pale red color at the pit at fat bud and bloom middle to late in the season and at almost the same time as `Nijisseiki`. The tree can produce an oblate-shaped fruit which matures early in the season, earlier than `Nijisseiki`, and has a normal keeping quality. The fruit has a large size which is larger than that of `Nijisseiki`, a skin which is covered partly with russet when cultivated without bagging, is at early maturity of the yellowish green color identified in the Munsel.RTM. Book of Color as follows:

Japanese pear tree

Growing community of inventors

Ibaraki, Japan

Itaru Kozaki