The Penelope potato is a medium-late maturing variety with deep yellow skin and flesh is yellow, and a long-oval shape. It’s high-yielding, with good resistance to common and powdery scab. Penelope has a firm, waxy texture, making it ideal for boiling and salads, and offers a mild, buttery flavor.
Plant and Tuber Characteristics
- Foliage maturity: early
- Emergence: moderate
- Plant vigour: high
- Skin colour: deep yellow
- Flesh colour: yellow
- Tuber shape: long oval
- Shape uniformity: good
- Eye depth: very shallow
- Tuber size: very large
- Tuber set: fairly low
Resistances
- Resistance to foliage late blight: fairly low
- Resistance to tuber late blight: moderate
- Resistance to pitted common scab: fairly low
- Resistance to pvy low Resistance to pvyntn: high
- Resistance to pcn g.Rostochiensis (ro1-4): null
- Resistance to pcn g.Pallida (pa2-3): null
- Resistance to wart pathovar 1: null
Quality
- Yield: high
- Dry matter content: low (15-17%)
- Cooking type: A-B
- Disintegration: none
- After cooking darkening: none
- Storage ability: moderate
