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The Villetta Rose is a late maturing red potato variety. It was developed at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and is under plant variety protection. It originated from a cross between Dark Red Norland and Nordonna varieties. [1] 'Villetta Rose' has a medium to long dormancy, stores well and maintains its red color in storage.
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.
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 ]
Potatoes roasted with a drizzle of your favorite healthy cooking oil is perfectly fine, she says, and if you like boiled potatoes (which don't require any added fat) that's great too. But a dish ...
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, is due to the presence of carotenoids. Varieties with coloured flesh are common among native Andean potatoes, but relatively rare among modern varieties.
Red Norland is a red, early-maturing potato. [1] Smaller tubers (B and C size) are commonly sold as “baby reds” and this variety is often served boiled or in potato salads. [ 1 ] The progenitor variety, 'Norland', was released by the North Dakota Agricultural College in 1957.
The Désirée potato (sometimes rendered Desirée or Desiree) is a red-skinned main-crop potato originally bred in the Netherlands in 1962. It has yellow flesh with a distinctive flavour and is a favourite with allotment -holders because of its resistance to drought, and is fairly resistant to disease. [ 1 ]
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]