The Cassandra potato variety features yellow skin and pale-yellow flesh with a medium-firm texture. It is versatile for boiling, steaming, roasting, baking, and mashing. Suitable for temperate climates and well-drained soils, it offers a good yield and moderate resistance to common potato diseases.
Plant and Tuber Characteristics
- Foliage Maturity: Medium
- Emergence: Fairly Fast
- Plant Vigour: High
- Tuber Shape: Short Oval
- Shape Uniformity: Fairly Good
- Eye Depth: Shallow
- Skin Colour: Yellow
- Flesh Colour: Pale Yellow
- Tuber Size: Large
- Tuber Set: Moderate(10)
Resistances
- Resistance to Foliage Late Blight: High
- Resistance to Tuber Late Blight: Moderate
- Resistance to Common Scab: High
- Resistance to Pvy: High
- Resistance to Pvyntn: Very High
- Resistance to Pcn G.rostochiensis (RO1-4): Full
- Resistance to Wart Disease (F1): High
Quality
- Yield: High
- Dry Matter Content: Medium (18-20%)
- Cooking Type: B
- Disintegration: Slight
- After Cooking Darkening: Very Slight
- Frying Colour at Harvest: Fairly Good
- Storage Ability: High
