Med sensation.... or is it?

I recently discovered another variety of pear in my local Green supermarket.

The label description - hand written - read Med Sensation; it is a well formed pear with a red blush.

A day or so later I see this fruit in the local Green supermarket again. This time it is labelled Red Sensation. Aha, a labelling error.

I search on the internet for more information and I learn it is a medium size pear with a distinct red and gold colour and is available from February to the end of May.

It is also possible it is only new to me. This variety, according to some sources, is part of the Bartlett pear family and has been around nearly as long as I have!!

Further along in the fruit display at the supermarket, I am highly amused to find a pack of William Bartlett pears with what appears to be a interloper nestled in among all the other small golden pears.

 

It looks suspiciously like a Red Sensation. What scallywags these new arrivals are – cosying up to some of the forty-second cousins.