Vegetables
Year Introduced: 1967
Country of Origin: United States
Hybridizer or Originator: USDA and Texas A & M University

General Plant Information (Edit)
Plant Habit: Herb/Forb
Life cycle: Perennial
Sun Requirements: Full Sun
Water Preferences: Mesic
Underground structures: Tuber
Uses: Vegetable
Toxicity: Leaves are poisonous
Fruit is poisonous
Propagation: Other methods: Stolons and runners
Pollinators: Various insects
Parentage: Merrimack x Kennebec

Common names
  • Potato

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