H. undatus (Vietnamese Giant)

Scientific Name: 
H. undatus

Common Name: 
Vietnamese Giant

• Attractive white-fleshed fruit with pinkish red skin and long bracts.
• Origin: Florida
• Fruit: oval; medium, 338 g; skin pinkish red, relatively thin; flesh very firm, white; seeds numerous, small, black; quality excellent for white-fleshed fruit, 15.6 Brix; 40 days from bloom to harvest in Southern California; harvest very compact, mid-July to mid-October.  
• Plant: stems thin and intermediate in width and length, triangular, with 3 distinct ridges; mature stems green, with a brown, hard edge on the ridges; areoles have 4-6 spines, randomly arranged, 1-3 mm long; segment between areoles convex, 50.3 mm long; flowers intermediate, petals white, calyx light yellow, anthers and stigma bright yellow. 
• Tolerance to cold and heat average; usually struggles in cold, damp conditions; potential for backyard growing and commercial production good.