Irish White is a variety of
potato
The potato is a starchy food, a tuber of the plant ''Solanum tuberosum'' and is a root vegetable native to the Americas. The plant is a perennial in the nightshade family Solanaceae.
Wild potato species can be found from the southern Unit ...
that was traditionally grown in
County Donegal
County Donegal ( ; ga, Contae Dhún na nGall) is a county of Ireland in the province of Ulster and in the Northern and Western Region. It is named after the town of Donegal in the south of the county. It has also been known as County Tyrconne ...
and
Antrim. It was raised by Robert Christie of Ballytaggart about 1882.
[ Irish Seed Savers Spring 2010 Seed List ]
The
tubers are long, irregular and white skinned with very deep eyes, similar to an '
Irish Lumper
The Irish Lumper is a varietal white potato of historic interest. It has been identified as the variety of potato whose widespread cultivation throughout Ireland, prior to the 1840s, is implicated in the Irish Great Famine in which an estimated ...
' in appearance.
References
Potato cultivars
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