Hylocereus guatemalensis (American Beauty)

Scientific Name: 
H. guatemalensis

Common Name: 
American Beauty

• Very flavorful fruit with fuchsia-colored flesh and reddish green skin. Thin rind and soft pulp make it susceptible to bruising; suitable for local marketing.
• Origin: Parentage unknown; introduced from Guatemala to Florida, and then to California. 
• Fruit: round; medium, 380 g; ideal for market, skin greenish-red; flesh fuchsia-colored; quality exceptional, pulp very juicy, lacking firmness; rind thin, with scattered bracts; 18.51 Brix; 43 days from bloom to harvest in Southern California; harvest June to November. 
• Plant: stems triangular, with 3 well-defined ridges, relatively thin and short, mature stems dark green and brittle, producing numerous shoots; pruning essential; areoles have 1-2 spines, 1-5 mm long; segment between areoles quite convex, 36.45 mm long; flowers small, petals white, calyx yellowish green, anthers and stigma lobes yellow.
• Tolerance to cold and hot weather average; struggles in full sun; commercial potential excellent if grown in a protected environment.