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.
Of course, one thing that draws people to vacation in Yuma is the beautiful, sunny weather. With an average of just 1.3 inches of rain per winter, no city on our list is drier. Yuma averages rain on just seven days in the wintertime, and the 242 sunny days per year is also tops among all cities we studied.