Belle de Fontenay is a small fingerling

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variety with yellow skin and yellow flesh. This heirloom variety was released in

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in 1885. This variety has a firm, waxy texture and is suitable for salads and soup. This variety has a long shaped tuber with a shallow eye depth and smooth skin. The colour of the base of the light sprout is blue, the maturity is early maincrop, the flowers are a blue violet colour and there are no berries on the plant of this species.

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