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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.
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The Red Pontiac (also known as Dakota Chief) is a red-skinned early main crop potato variety originally bred in the United States, [1] and is sold in the United States, Canada, Australia, Marruecos, the Philippines, Venezuela and Uruguay. It arose as a color mutant of the original Pontiac variety in Florida [2] by a J.W. Weston in 1945. [3]
Adirondack Red is a potato variety with red flesh and skin, bred by Cornell University potato breeders Robert Plaisted, Ken Paddock and Walter De Jong, and released in 2004. The Adirondack varieties are unusual because both the skin and the flesh are colored and have high levels of anti-oxidants . [ 1 ]
This variety is a mutation (or sport) of the cultivar 'Burbank's Seedling' that was selected by the plant breeder Luther Burbank in 1873. The known lineage of Russet Burbank began in 1853 when Chauncey E. Goodrich imported the Rough Purple Chili from South America in an attempt to add diversity to American potato stocks which were susceptible to late blight.
The level III ecoregions in Arkansas are the South Central Plains (35), Ouachita Mountains (36), Arkansas Valley (37), Boston Mountains (38), Ozark Highlands (39), Mississippi Alluvial Plain (73), Mississippi Valley Loess Plains (74). (Compare to map of Level IV ecoregions.)
In a source from 1817, six varieties of potato are listed as available at the market of Les Halles; among them are both vitelotte and violette ("violet"). [ 6 ] : 508 A treatise on agriculture published in 1863 lists five possible colours for the vitelotte: white, yellow, pink, red and violet. [ 7 ]
The variety was the most popular in the UK by 1980, accounting for 24 % of the British potato crop in 1982, [2] 20 % in 2005 [14] and 16 % in 2014. [15] It became popular due to both its resistance to nematodes and its pleasing taste for consumers. [16] Maris Piper has a fluffy texture and is considered an "all-rounder" potato. [17]