Apache

With warm red skin dotting with cream coloured patches, the eye catching variety is very sweet tasting with a buttery chestnut flavour.

Parentage	Stroma x S. phureja seedling
Ownership	Caledonia Potatoes
Breeder	Zella J Doig
Breeders Rep.	Caithness Potatoes Ltd Scotland
Maturity	Early maincrop
Yield	Wane production
Tubers	Short-oval shape eyes, medium–deep. Skin–red parti–coloured, medium yellow flesh colour.
Eating quality	Sweet tasting with a buttery chestnut flavour and has a slightly waxy texture. The contrasting skin colours stay bright if blanched first before roasting whole in their skins.
Virus diseases	Low Resistant to PLRV Reasonably high resistance to PVY
Other diseases	Moderate resistance to late blight, common scab, and powdery scab
PCN	Low resistant
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