The Darling potato is an attractive new variety from Danespo, well-suited for fresh market applications, including delicacy, salad, and organic production. It is a medium-early maturing variety with high yield potential and excellent disease resistance characteristics.
Variety Characteristics
- Category: Fresh Market
- Usage: Salad and consumption and organic
- Maturity: Medium early
- Yield: High
- Foliage: Covering
- Tuber size: Medium
- Tuber shape: Long-oval
- Number of tubers: 12-17
- Skin colour: Yellow, very smooth
- Flesh colour: Yellow
- Cooking type: AB
- Dry matter content: Medium
- Dormancy period: Long
- Nematodes: Resistance; Ro1,4, 5*
- Wart disease: Resistance; Type 1, 2*.6*.18*
- Foliage blight: Medium resistance
- Tuber blight: High resistance
- Common scab: High resistance
- Virus Y: High resistance