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.
Forecast: Sunshine. If gray skies get you down, Yuma should be at the top of your list of potential travel destinations. We hold the Guinness World Record as the sunniest city on Earth, with sunshine 91 percent of daylight hours (a mean of 4,055 hours per year of 4,456 possible).