Pera Cocomerina
Cocomerina Pear
Cocomero is watermelon, and the name is about the colour: the flesh is pink, deepest at the centre of late-picked fruit. The pears are small and oval, green-skinned, 20 to 60 grams. They are aromatic and fragile, which makes them nearly impossible to sell fresh but excellent for jam and liqueur. Like most heirloom fruit they were grown for the household, so what is left is a scatter of trees.
Designation
- Certification
- Slow Food Presidium
- Category
- Fruit, vegetables and cereals, fresh or processed
Where it is made
upper Savio valley, Verghereto and Bagno di Romagna, Forlì-Cesena province
How it is made
The early strain is picked in August and September, the late one in October.