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James Clark (1 May 1825 – 5 June 1890), was an English market gardener and horticulturist in Christchurch, Dorset who specialised in raising new varieties of potato. His most noted success was Magnum Bonum, described by The Times as "the first real disease-resisting potato ever originated and offered to the world". [1]
Plant and flower of the variety Bintje. Bintje / ˈ b ɪ n tʃ ə / is a middle-early ripening potato variety bred in the Netherlands by the Frisian schoolmaster K.L. de Vries in 1904 from (Munstersen x Fransen) and marketed for the first time in 1910. [1] The name of the potato, a diminutive of Benedict, was borrowed from one of his former ...
Extremely precocial species are called "superprecocial". Examples are the megapode birds, which have full-flight feathers at hatching and which, in some species, can fly on the same day. [3] Enantiornithes [4] and pterosaurs [citation needed] were also capable of flight soon after hatching.
Solanum crinitum, also frequently called Solanum macranthum (common name giant star potato tree) is a medium-sized (to forty feet (twelve meters) tropical tree from Brazil belonging to the Potato family and is noteworthy for three things. First its flowers continue to grow bigger even after they open, doubling in size, and eventually becoming ...
The term applies to immature potatoes harvested between early May and late July in the area surrounding Comber. [ 8 ] [ 9 ] This area, sheltered by the Mourne Mountains and Ards Peninsula and protected from frost by the saltwater of Strangford Lough , has a distinctive microclimate , allowing an early potato harvest and a distinctive sweet ...
One of the outcomes of plant reproduction is the generation of seeds, spores, and fruits [13] that allow plants to move to new locations or new habitats. [14] Plants do not have nervous systems or any will for their actions. Even so, scientists are able to observe mechanisms that help their offspring thrive as they grow.
Dirt protects the potatoes from premature spoiling, and storing moist potatoes could lead to mold Store potatoes in cool but not cold temperatures; between 45°F and 55°F is ideal.
First open flowers in population 61: 601: Beginning of flowering: 10% of flowers in the first inflorescence open (main stem) 62: 602: 20% of flowers in the first inflorescence open 63: 603: 30% of flowers in the first inflorescence open 64: 604: 40% of flowers in the first inflorescence open 65: 605: Full flowering: 50% of flowers in the first ...