Tante Alice (Aunt Alice)

Market mature fruit is long and curved, glossy dark green skin with pale green stripes, white spines. Seed mature fruit is yellow, avgs 14.6" long, 2.6" wide. Good flavor and texture, mildly sweet, no bitterness. Best eaten when small and tender before fruit turns dark green. Donated to SSE by Garrett Pittenger (ONT PI G) who obtained the variety from Antoine d'Avignon (QUE DA A). Originally from Mrs. Alice Gosselin of Dorchester, Quebec. SSE Accession # 109403