Blackberry is a tablestock variety with unique purple skin and a deep purple flesh. The tubers have an attractive, uniform, round shape and a purple flesh with common scab resistance and low incidence of internal defects. Yield can be high under irrigated conditions. Blackberry will also chip-process out of the field.
The unique purple skin and purple flesh of the tubers of Blackberry offer a unique potato that could lend itself to the specialty variety market, such as gourmet restaurants and food stores, as well as farm and roadside markets. The primary market for this clone will be farm market and direct retail sale growers, and home gardeners. This variety is also used as a gourmet chip processing variety.
Morphological Characteristics:
- Plant: Full-sized vine, semi-erect with a balance between stems and foliage visible, and flowers.
- Tubers: Round tubers with a smooth skin and unique purple skin and purple flesh color. Tubers have a deep purple flesh with a low incidence of internal defects.
Agronomic Characteristics:
- Maturity: Mid-season.
- Tubers: Round tubers with unique purple skin and deep purple flesh.
- Yield: Average to above average yield.
- Specific Gravity: Averages 1.070 in Michigan.
- Culinary Quality: Gourmet specialty with deep purple flesh and also chip processes.
- Foliage: Full-sized, semi-erect vine.
- Diseases: Good common scab resistance.
