The Désirée potato (sometimes rendered Desirée or Desiree) is a red-skinned ''main-crop''
potato
The potato is a starchy food, a tuber of the plant ''Solanum tuberosum'' and is a root vegetable native to the Americas. The plant is a perennial in the nightshade family Solanaceae.
Wild potato species can be found from the southern Unit ...
originally bred in the
Netherlands
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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. It is a versatile, fairly waxy variety which is firm and holds its shape, and is useful for all methods of cooking, from roasting to mashing and salads.
It is immune to potato wart and it is resistant to skin spot. It has good resistance to
PVY, tuber late
blight
Blight refers to a specific symptom affecting plants in response to infection by a pathogenic organism.
Description
Blight is a rapid and complete chlorosis, browning, then death of plant tissues such as leaves, branches, twigs, or floral org ...
and
blackleg. It also has moderate resistance to
PVA,
PVX and
fusarium dry rot ''Fusarium'' dry rot is one of the most common potato diseases. It is caused by fungi in the genus '' Fusarium''. This fungi causes a variety of colored rots in potatoes. This pathogen, while having both a sexual and asexual form, stays in an asexua ...
. It is found to be moderately susceptible to leaf late blight and
leaf roll, also it is susceptible to common scab.
Description
*Habit: Medium height, later spreading
*Foliage: Medium to dark grey-green, strong purple colour throughout plant
*Stems numerous, purple
*Leaf rigid, open, slightly arched
*Leaflets oval, pointed
*Secondaries few
*Buds/flowers: Buds large, red-purple on hairy stalks, flowers red-violet fading to white
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Potato cultivars
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