This is a medium sized, juicy, crunchy, sweet pear of Asian heritage with green to yellow skin and off white flesh. Like all Asian pears, this variety combines the familiar pear flavor with the crunchiness of an apple. This fruit ripens in late August to mid September at the 4,500 feet. It stores for about a month. May also be a good candidate as rootstock for other pears, as Asian pears have been historically utilized in this manner to produce slightly dwarfed pear trees. Some resistance to fireblight and very drought tolerant.

The now completely wild, non irrigated mother tree grows in the town of Forest in Sierra County, CA at 4500'. Forest was a very productive and vibrant gold mining camp founded in 1852. Forest was also called "Forks of Oregon Creek". The present name of Forest was derived not from the magnificent forest of conifers surrounding it, as is generally supposed, "but from a Mrs. Forest Mooney, the wife of Captain Mooney". This woman had a knack for writing newspaper articles, and invariably signed her journalistic contributions "Forest City". Today, Forest is full of antique pears, apples and cherries that we will be introducing over the next several years.