CANBERRA

Canberra is a beautiful deep red skin and white flesh, Canberra's have a medium starch content making them an excellent multi-purpose potato, being not too floury or too waxy. With an excellent flavour, they are suitable for roasting, pan frying and baking; making a magnificent choice for dauphinoise or potato gratin.
 

• Uniform tuber size and shape
• Suitable for second (autumn/winter) crop
• Bright, dark red skin
• Good dry matter content
• Good common and powdery scab resistance

Characteristics
 

• Maturity: Early maturity and tuberisation
• Yield: Good yield of medium to large tubers
• Tubers: Oval shape Medium to large tubers Bright, dark red skin with yellow flesh
• Eating quality: Great flavour, slightly mealy. Most suitable for washed – fresh market.
• Virus diseases: Susceptible to PVY, resistant to Yntn.
• Other diseases: Resistant to tube blight, common and powdery scab. Slightly susceptible to foliage blight.