- Very flavorful fruit with fuchsia colored flesh and reddish green skin.
- Origin: Guatemala
- Fruit: round; medium, 360 g; ideal for market, skin greenish-red; flesh fuchsia colored, pulp very juicy, lacks firmness; rind thin, with scattered compact bracts; quality exceptional; 18.9 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 on average, 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; lack of cold hardiness limits commercial potential or requires protected environments.
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