Fruits and Nuts · FFET10357
Laiyang pear
A local pear from Laiyang, Shandong, with large fruit and yellow-green skin marked by brown russet spots.
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Laiyang pear, also called Laiyang Chili, comes from Laiyang in Yantai, Shandong, with its core growing area on the sandy land locally called yousha between the Wulong River and its tributaries. The fruit is large and usually obovate, with yellow-green skin and brown russet spots. Cultivation spans more than 400 years, but the supplied material contains no primary text establishing when it began.
What
Laiyang pear is a local pear from Laiyang, Shandong, also called Laiyang Chili. The fruit is large and usually obovate, with yellow-green skin, brown russet spots and a sunken calyx end.2,4
When
The trees blossom in mid-April. Accounts from 2023 and 2025 record more than 400 years of Laiyang pear cultivation; the supplied material has no primary text establishing its beginning, and the Qimin Yaoshu covers pear cultivation generally, so it cannot establish Laiyang pear's origins.2,3,5
Where
The growing area is Laiyang, within Yantai, Shandong. Its core is the sandy land locally called yousha between the Wulong River and its tributaries.2,3
How
Laiyang pears are processed. As of April 2025, local pear products included cheese sticks made with pear paste, freeze-dried pear slices and candies.3
Why
Laiyang pear has large fruit with brown russet spots on yellow-green skin and is one of China's 4 famous pears.2,3,4
Impact and influence
Laiyang pear is among the products covered by enterprise permissions to use the geographical indication mark under CNIPA's Notice No. 671, published March 11, 2026, and signed March 5. This concerns mark-use permissions; the supplied material does not establish the original protection year, and the attached enterprise list was not opened.1