- Pinkish-white- or light pink-fleshed fruit with excellent flavor, well suited for backyard cultivation.
- Origin: Bred and selected by Paul Thompson in San Diego County, early 1980's.
- Fruit: oval; medium, 371 g, ideal for marketing; quality excellent; flesh light pink or pinkish-white, seeds small; rind greenish red, of intermediate thickness; bracts short, scattered; 18.08 Brix; 41 days from bloom to harvest in Southern California; harvest late June to mid-December.
- Plant: very vigorous, stem triangular, with 3 well defined ridges; stems intermediate in thickness and length, very straight, green when mature; areoles have 1-3 thin spines, 1-3 mm long; segment between areoles convex, 43.3 mm long; flowers intermediate, petals white, calyx, yellowish, anthers and stigma lobes yellow.
- Tolerance to cold and heat slightly better than average; does relatively well in full sun; commercial potential good.
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