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Seed potatoes

Seed potatoes
Breeder (s): Z.P.C. B.V. – Netherlands
Listing in: French Catalogue (2002)
Type: List A
Category: firm flesh consumption
Maturity: Early to medium-early

Tuber: elongated, shallow eyes, yellow skin, smooth to medium, dark yellow flesh.

Sprout: Red purplish, conical, medium to dense hairiness.

Plant: Medium height, semi-upright to spreading habit, intermediate type.

Stem: Weak pigmentation.

Leaf: light to medium, semi-gloss, small to medium size; leaflet medium, medium width.

Flowering: zero or very low to low.

Flower: white, flower bud weakly pigmented.

Fruit: absent or very rare.
cultural characters and use

Yield: 137% of Belle de Fontenay

Calibration: proportion of large tubers: low.

Susceptibility to diseases:
Leaf blight: susceptible.
Tuber blight: susceptible.
Wart: not attacked.
Common scab: fairly susceptible.
Winding: slightly susceptible.
Nematode RO 1-4: resistant.

Internal tuber defects: slightly susceptible to rust spots, hollow heart
and black spots

Sensitivity to desprouting: insensitive.
Mechanical Impact: moderately sensitive
dormant: medium.

Culinary quality: good for cooking, culinary group A,
blackening after cooking: nil, fry color: medium to dark enough.

Dry matter content: Low.

Keeping quality: Low.