- Large, red-fleshed fruit with greenish red skin, excellent quality, thick and heavy plants, and great tolerance to heat and cold.
- Origin: unnamed selection collected by R. Lobo in El Grullo, Jalisco State, Mexico.
- Fruit: oval; large, 489 g; quality acceptable; flesh dark red; rind purplish-red, thick and hard with numerous compact bracts; 18.11 Brix; 40 days from bloom to harvest in Southern California; harvest mid-July to December.
- Plant: stems thick, heavy, fleshy and long, exceeding 2 m in length when fully grown; young shoots lime green, triangular, with well-defined ridges; mature stems turn grayish and fill in the section between the ridges, becoming almost a sold triangle; spines very numerous and long, each areole having 8-13 needle like spines randomly arranged, 3-14 mm long; flowers large and narrow, tubular, petals white, calyx yellowish red, anthers and stigma lobes light yellow.
- Tolerance to cold and heat exceptional; grows well in full sun, maintaining the same appearance year-round.
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