- White-fleshed, pinkish-red skinned with large fruit of marginal quality; vigorous, strong and prolific bloomer with longer fruiting season than other white-fleshed cultivars.
- Origin: Florida, similar to George.
- Fruit: round; large, 518 g; flesh firm, white; skin thick, pinkish red, with numerous short, compact bracts; quality marginal; 12.18 Brix; 41 days from bloom to harvest in Southern California; harvest mid-July to December.
- Plant: stems thick and short, mature stems grayish green, with a striped pattern that resembles zebra stripes; stems have clusters of spines arranged in a circular pattern, 4-6 spines per cluster, 3-7 mm long; flowers long and narrow, tubular, petals white, calyx light green, anthers light yellow, stigma lobes lime green.
- Tolerance to cold and heat higher than average; usually grows well in full sun; limited potential for commercial production, but valuable as a pollinizer.
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