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Unlike most potato varieties developed at Cornell over the past few decades, it is susceptible to pink rot, leafhoppers, common potato viruses, Colorado potato beetle, Fusarium, and seed piece decay. [1] Penn State's alumni association is marketing potato chips in the school colors, using the 'Adirondack Blue'. [2]
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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Skerry Champion is a variety of potato with a round-to-oval shape and creamy yellow skin with a beautiful blue/purple "birthmark" colouring. 'Skerry Champions' have only recently become available to growers again after a long period of absence due to a host of viral diseases it was carrying.
Jay Wilde . Trees with Spiky Seed Pods. If you've encountered some round, spiny balls under a tree or maybe still on the plant, and you're wondering what it could be, it's likely one of several ...
All new potato varieties are grown from seeds, also called "true potato seed", "TPS" or "botanical seed" to distinguish it from seed tubers. New varieties grown from seed can be propagated vegetatively by planting tubers, pieces of tubers cut to include at least one or two eyes, or cuttings, a practice used in greenhouses for the production of ...
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 ]