Flashcards: Potato cultivars

Home Guard is a potato variety grown mainly in Ireland.

The Ulster Emblem variety of potatoes originated in Northern Ireland.

Adirondack Red Potato 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.

British Queen is a variety of potato that was bred by Archibald Finlay.

Skerry Champion is a variety of potato with a round-to-oval shape and creamy yellow skin with a beautiful blue/purple "birthmark" colouring.

Black Champion is a variety of potato with purple skin colour that produces round, flattened tubers.

Bloomer is a potato variety.

Laura is a midseason-ripening, firm-fleshed, edible potato.

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.

Melody is a cultivar of potato.

'Gala' is an early-ripening firm-fleshed edible potato, for which good eating and keeping qualities are claimed.

Mizen is a high-yielding creamy yellow skinned potato that produces long, smooth-skinned tubers with good resistance to foliar and tuber blight.

Champion is a potato variety bred by John Nicoll in Scotland and widely grown in Ireland during the latter half of the 19th century.

King Edward is a potato variety grown in the UK since 1902, making it one of the oldest varieties still grown commercially.

'Pink Fir Apple' is a maincrop potato variety with a pink skin and cream, waxy flesh.

Kerr's Pink is a potato cultivar in wide production in Ireland and the United Kingdom and many other countries.

Anya is a variety of potato that was bred at the Scottish Crop Research Institute and grown exclusively for Sainsbury's supermarkets by Albert Bartlett.

Butte is a potato cultivar that was released in 1977.

Irish White is a variety of potato that was traditionally grown in Donegal and Antrim.