NOTE: plant in warm soil because of slow early development.
Utilization: no discoloration after cooking; tasty; very good for baking, boiling and steaming.
Chief Market: fresh market.
Why Ambra
- Early maturity and tuberisation
- Very attractive bright skin
- Uniform tuber size and shape
- Good storability
Botanical Features:
- Plants: medium, semi-upright; stems weakly pigmented (located in leaf axils and upwards); nodes slightly swollen.
- Leaves: medium green, semi-open; midribs and petioles weakly pigmented; slightly wavy margins; medium deep veins.
- Terminal leaflets: medium ovate; tip acuminate; base cordate.
- Primary leaflets: narrowly ovate; tip cuspidate; base cordate.
- Secondary and tertiary leaflets: moderately numerous.
- Flowers: medium profusion; white corolla; flower buds strongly pigmented; peduncle weakly pigmented.
- Tubers: oval; smooth yellow skin; shallow eyes, predominantly apical; non prominent eyebrows; yellow flesh.
- Sprouts: broad cylindrical; red-violet; base strongly pigmented, moderately pubescent; tip very weakly pigmented, strongly pubescent, closed habit.
Reaction to Diseases:
- Immune: potato wart (race 1).
- Resistant: golden nematode (Globodera rostochiensis Ro1, Ro4).
- Moderately susceptible: common scab.
- Susceptible: late blight.
