An excellent pollinizer for early to mid-season bloom. cultivars. Trees are medium in vigor and slightly. upright, with large white blossoms. The large size. fruit is marketable for use in preserves or decorations.
Yuma has a warm desert climate with extremely low precipitation figures all year round. Temperatures are high all year round with a peak during summer. During the summer temperatures may rise as high as 50 degrees Celsius (122 degrees Fahrenheit) or even more. During the winter subzero temperatures are not uncommon.
Temperatures in Phoenix, Flagstaff, Tucson and Yuma broke daily records Sunday afternoon, according to the National Weather Service. Phoenix reached 118 degrees, Tucson 115 degrees, Flagstaff 93 degrees and Yuma soared to 120 degrees, that city's fourth-hottest day on record. But the heat turned deadly for some.