- Red-fleshed, medium-sized fruit with red skin, good quality.
- Origin: collected by R. Lobo in Las Manos, near border of Honduras and Nicaragua.
- Fruit: round; medium, 390 g; quality acceptable; flesh very firm, red; skin purplish-red, intermediate in thickness, with numerous bracts; 16.11 Brix; 41 days from bloom to harvest in Southern California; harvest mid-June to January.
- Plant: stems thick and short, with 3 well-defined ridges, dark green spiny; areoles have 4-6 spines, arranged in a circular pattern, 3-8 mm long; flowers intermediate, petals white; calyx yellowish, with shades of red on the edges, anthers and stigma lobes yellow.
- Tolerance to cold and heat; grows well in full sun; commercial potential good.
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