Pink Fir Apple potato

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Pink Fir Apple
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'Pink Fir Apple' potatoes
Species Solanum tuberosum
Cultivar 'Pink Fir Apple'
OriginFrance

The Pink Fir Apple potato is a maincrop potato variety with a long knobbly shape, pink skin, and creamy waxy flesh. [1] Its shape makes it difficult to peel. [2]

Pink Fir Apple potato was first imported to the United Kingdom from France in 1850, [3] [4] and in 1996 was crossed with the Désirée variety to form the Anya potato for Sainsbury's supermarkets. [5] [6]

Characteristics

It grows to about 1.2 m (3 ft 11 in) in height. [2] Its blooms, which are single form, normally with five petals, are about 2.5 cm (0.98 in) in diameter at full maturity and are coloured blue-violet, mauve taupe and light pastel purple.

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