- White-fleshed fruit with pinkish-red skin, attractive appearance with long bracts.
- Origin: Mexico, introduced in Nicaragua.
- Fruit: oblong; large, 552 g; skin pinkish red, relatively thin; flesh very firm, white, with numerous small black seeds; quality acceptable for white-fleshed fruit, 14.04 Brix; 40 days from bloom to harvest in Southern California; harvest very compact, mid-July to mid-October.
- Plant: stems thin but wide, relatively long, triangular in shape with 3 distinct ridges; mature stems green, with a brown, hard stripe on the ridges; areoles have 3-5 conic spines, similarly sized and arranged in a triangular pattern, 3-5 mm long; segment between areoles convex, 53.3 mm long; flowers intermediate, petals white, calyx light yellow, anthers and stigma lobes bright yellow.
- Tolerance to cold and heat average; usually struggles in cold, damp conditions; good both for backyard growing and for commercial production.
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