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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 yellow colour, more or less marked ...
Description. 'Vitelotte' potatoes have a dark blue, almost black, skin and dark violet-blue flesh; they have a characteristic nutty flavour and smell of chestnuts. The colour is retained in cooking, and is due to natural pigments in the anthocyanin group of flavonoids. [4] The plants mature late and, compared to modern varieties, are relatively ...
The war against the potato beetle was a campaign launched in Warsaw Pact countries during the Cold War to eradicate the Colorado potato beetle (Leptinotarsa decemlineata). It was also a propaganda operation that alleged it was introduced into East Germany , the People's Republic of Poland and Communist Czechoslovakia by the United States as a ...
Adirondack Blue. The ' Adirondack Blue' is a potato variety with blue flesh and skin with a slight purple tint, released by Cornell University potato breeders Robert Plaisted, Ken Paddock, and Walter De Jong in 2003. The 'Adirondack' varieties are purple and the skin may be slightly netted. Tuber dormancy is short.
The potato was the first domesticated vegetable in the region of modern-day southern Peru and extreme northwestern Bolivia [1] between 8000 and 5000 BC. [2] Cultivation of potatoes in South America may go back 10,000 years, [3] but tubers do not preserve well in the archaeological record, making identification difficult.
The Russian blue potato plant produces medium round and oblong tubers with deep purple insides. [1] It is a late season variety of potato. The plants themselves are large, semi-erect, and produce light blue flowers and dark foliage. [2] [3] [4]
The potato ( / pəˈteɪtoʊ /) is a starchy root vegetable native to the Americas that is consumed as a staple food in many parts of the world. Potatoes are 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.
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