Apollo is an early variety with firm flesh, offering medium yields. It can be harvested a primeur, before maturity. Potatoes have a rather elongated shape and a fine and tasty flesh.
Descriptive characters
- Tuber: Long, regular, very shallow eyes, yellow skin, yellow flesh .
- Sprout: Purplish red, conical, strong hair.
- Plant: Medium height, semi-spreading habit, semi-leafy type.
- Upper: Entrenceuds nodes moderately pigmented, nodes slightly pigmented, straight to wavy wings.
- Leaf: Clear green, glossy, moderately divided, half-opened; large leaflet, oval (I = 1, 82); limbus plan.
- Flowering: Moderately profuse.
- Flower: White upper face, purplish red lower face, partially pigmented flower bud.
- Fruit: Very rare.
Cropping characters and Use
- Yield: 91% of Bintje
- Grading: Proportion of large tubers: high.
Susceptibility to diseases
- Leaf blight: slightly susceptible.
- Tuber blight: slightly susceptible.
- Wart: not attacked.
- Common scab: slightly susceptible.
- Virus X: NTR
- Virus A: NTR
- Virus Y: moderately susceptible.
- Winding: sensitive.
- Nematode ROI -4: RAS
- Internal tuber defects: Rather slightly susceptible to stains rust, slightly susceptible to hollow heart, slightly susceptible to. Black spots
- Sensitivity to sprouting: susceptible.
- Dormancy period: Fairly short.
- Culinary quality: on cooking, culinary group B, slight blackening after cooking
- Frying color: NTR
- Dry matter content: Low
- Keeping quality: Poor.