- Red-fleshed fruit with better than average flavor, large size, most productive of all red-fleshed Nicaraguan cultivars.
- Origin: Nicaragua
- Fruit: oval; medium large, 465 g; skin red; rind thick, with a smooth, velvety feel, hence the name Lisa "Smooth"; flesh dark red; very firm; quality better than average, 17.02 Brix; 44 days from bloom to harvest in Southern California; harvest late June to late December or January.
- Plant: stems intermediate in thickness and length; mature stems grayish green; areoles have 3-5 spines, 3-7 mm long, usually arranged in a circular pattern; segment between areoles slightly convex, 23mm long; flowers largest of all, petals white, calyx yellow, with shades of red on the edges, anthers and stigma lobes bright yellow.
- Tolerance to cold and heat better than average; commercial potential excellent.
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