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These potatoes also have coloured skin, but many varieties with pink or red skin have white or yellow flesh, as do the vast majority of cultivated potatoes. The yellow colour, more or less marked, is due to the presence of carotenoids. Varieties with coloured flesh are common among native Andean potatoes, but relatively rare among modern varieties.
Yellow Finn is a potato cultivar.Its origin is sourced to Europe. [1] [2] It is medium-sized with yellow flesh and skin that varies from white to yellow.[1]Although its yields are described as low, the cultivar was widely grown in California by small-scale producers during the 1990s.
The Pink Fir Apple potato is a maincrop potato variety with a long knobbly shape, pink skin, and creamy waxy flesh. [1] Its shape makes it difficult to peel, [ 2 ] unless boiled before peeling. Pink Fir Apple potato was first imported to the United Kingdom from France in 1850, [ 3 ] [ 4 ] and in 1996 was crossed with the Désirée variety to ...
Of California's total plant population, 2,153 species, subspecies, and varieties are endemic and native to California alone, according to the 1993 Jepson Manual study. [4] This botanical diversity stems not only from the size of the state, but also its diverse topographies , climates, and soils (e.g. serpentine outcrops ).
A variety of different potatoes for sale in a market in France Potatoes of different colors. There are some 5,000 potato varieties worldwide, 3,000 of them in the Andes alone — mainly in Peru, Bolivia, Ecuador, Chile, and Colombia. Over 100 cultivars might be found in a single valley, and a dozen or more might be maintained by a single ...
Amflora (also known as EH92-527-1) is a genetically modified potato cultivar developed by BASF Plant Science. "Amflora" potato plants produce pure amylopectin starch that is processed to waxy potato starch. It was approved for industrial applications in the European Union on 2 March 2010 by the European Commission. [2]
The known parents of 'Vivaldi' are 'TZ 77 148' and 'Monalisa', which are not commonly grown in the UK. [2] 'Vivaldi' is a Second Early variety producing oval tubers with yellow skin and pale yellow flesh and which are resistant to scab. Botanical features of this variety include a tall plant with stems weakly pigmented and slightly swollen nodes.
The leaves grow from the base of the plant, and can be from 20 to 70 cm long and 6 to 25 mm wide. [1] As the plant's name indicates, their edges are generally wavy, though this is not always particularly noticeable. The flowers are borne on a long stem, normally longer than the leaves, and are from 15 to 30 mm long.