Romera is a medium late, cooking type B ware potato with bright red skin. It is high yielding with a high tuber set which makes it an interesting variety for creamers or little potatoes. It produces attractive tubers with deep yellow flesh colour and excellent culinary quality.
Plant and Tuber Characteristics
- Maturity Group: medium late
- Tuber Shape: oval
- Plant Type: intermediate
- Flesh Colour: yellow
- Growth Habit: semi - upright to upright
- Eye Depth: shallow
- Colour of Flower: redviolett
- Skin Colour: red
- Foliage Development: medium
- Skin Characteristic: slightly netted
- Number of Tubers: medium
- Dormancy: long
Resistances
- Potato Wart: under investigation
- Nematodes: under investigation
- Leaf Blight: medium to high
- Scab: high Rhizoctonia: medium to high
- Internal Rust Spot: medium to high
- Bruising: medium to high
- PVY: high
- Secondary growth: medium to high
Yield and Quality
- Market: Outlet ware potato
- Yield: high
- Share Oversize: medium
- Share Undersize: low
- Cooking Type: B
- Discoloration Cooked: low to medium
- Dry Matter: medium (20%)
