Pink Fir Apple

Pink Fir Apple
'Pink Fir Apple' potatoes
Species	Solanum tuberosum
Cultivar	'Pink Fir Apple'
Origin	France

'Pink Fir Apple' is a maincrop potato variety with a pink skin and cream, waxy flesh.^[1] It has a long, knobbly shape. Originally, it was imported to the UK from France in 1850.^[2]^[3] In 1996, it was crossed with the 'Désirée' variety to form the 'Anya' potato for Sainsbury's supermarkets^[4]

References

↑ "Potato Seed Catalogue 2005". Irish Seed Saver Association. 2012. Retrieved 16 June 2012.
↑ "The European Cultivated Potato Database". europotato.org. 2012. Retrieved 7 February 2012.
↑ "Pink Fir Apple 1850". heritage-potatoes.co.uk. 2012. Retrieved 7 February 2012.
↑ "Anya Seed Potaoes". how-to-grow-potatoes.co.uk. 2012. Retrieved 16 May 2012.

Potato cultivars

List of potato cultivars

Adirondack Blue Adirondack Red Agata Almond Alturas Amandine Amflora Anya Atlantic Austrian Crescent Bamberg Belle de Fontenay Bintje Black Champion Bloomer Butte Champion Désirée Gala Golden Wonder Home Guard International Kidney Irish Lumper Irish White Kennebec Kerr's Pink King Edward Laura Marfona Maris Piper Melody Mizen Pike Pink Fir Apple Ratte Red Norland Red Pontiac Rooster Russet Burbank Superior Skerry Champion Stobrawa Ulster Emblem Vitelotte Vivaldi Yellow Finn Yukon Gold

Creamer potato Fingerling potato

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