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Picking season: Early. Self-fertility: Not self-fertile. Hosui is an early-season Asian pear, sometimes considered to have the best flavor of any Asian pear variety. The flesh is very juicy, crisp, and very sweet.
Hosui Asian Pear Tree. The Hosui Asian Pear Tree is celebrated for its sweet, juicy fruits with a distinctive round shape and golden-brown skin, offering a honey-like sweetness and crisp texture unlike traditional pears.
Hosui Asian Pear, Pyrus pyrifolia ‘Hosui’. Size at maturity: 12-18 feet tall and wide (or 8 – 10 feet tall when grafted onto a dwarf tree rootstock). Notes: The ‘Hosui’ Asian pear is known for its large, juicy, and sweet fruits with a crisp texture.
Hosui are very round, medium to large, and combining the flavor and sweetness of Pears with the crunchiness of crisp Apples. Their mild flavor is sweet and slightly tart. Produces excellent-quality fruit with a slightly higher acid content than other Asian pears.
Buy it now. Produces the largest Asian Pears out of all our trees! Hosui is a beautiful golden-brown speckled fruit with a crisp and juicy texture that is so tender and soft, it mirrors a perfectly ripe standard pear picked while still warm from the sun.
Hosui Pear on OHxF 97 (Spring 2025) An Asian pear of exceptionally high quality. This tree is vigorous, willowy, and spreading. Like most Asian pears it is susceptible to fireblight and pseudomonas, but it does have some resistance to scab and alternaria.
A favorite Asian pear variety, Pyrus pyrifolia 'Hosui' is a dessert cultivar with a profusion of fragrant, creamy white flowers in midseason (mid-spring). Draped in clusters along the branches, they are truly a sight to behold.
