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This is a list of potato varieties or cultivars. Potato cultivars can have a range of colours due to the accumulation of anthocyanins in the tubers . 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 European Cultivated Potato Database (ECPD) is an online collaborative database of potato variety descriptions. The information that it contains can be searched by variety name, or by selecting one or more required characteristics. 159,848 observations; 29 contributors; 91 characters; 4,119 cultivated varieties; 1,354 breeding lines
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The potato (/ p ə ˈ t eɪ t oʊ /) is a starchy tuberous vegetable native to the Americas that is consumed as a staple food in many parts of the world. Potatoes are underground tubers of the plant Solanum tuberosum, a perennial in the nightshade family Solanaceae. Wild potato species can be found from the southern United States to southern Chile.
Maris Piper is the most widely grown potato variety in the United Kingdom accounting for 16% of the planted area in 2014. Introduced in 1966 it was one of the first potato varieties bred to be resistant to a form of potato cyst nematode, a major pest of potato production in the UK.
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British Queen is a variety of potato that was bred by Archibald Finlay. A type of potato with a great flavour [fact or opinion?] [according to whom?] and a floury flesh, [1] [full citation needed] [2] Finlay wrote that it "is one of the finest white kidney-shaped mid-season potatoes." [3]
Shetland Black is a dark purple heritage variety of potato. [1] It comes from the Shetland Islands, [2] and was developed in the Victorian era. [citation needed] It is part of the United Kingdom Ark of Taste. [3] The plant grows to a height of about 2.5 feet (0.76 m), [4] and is shallow-rooted and thus suitable for container growing.