TerraRossa is a red-skinned, red-fleshed oblong specialty fresh potato variety. It has also shown promise as a chipping variety, as chips resist fading and retain their rosy color. With help from our good friends with the Northwest Potato Variety Development program, we feature it in this month’s Smorgasbord.
More information, including a list of seed growers of TerraRossa, can be found at www.pvmi.org.
Strengths
- High specific gravity
- Excellent culinary quality, ideal for baking, frying or microwaving
- Few tuber defects; significantly fewer surface blemishes and internal problems than Red La Soda
- Vibrant skin and flesh color
- Smooth tubers with well-distributed shallow eyes
- Resistant to Metribuzin
Weaknesses
- Slightly lower yields in Pacific Northwest than Dark Red Norland and Red La Soda
- Medium storage capability
- Medium to high fertility requirements
- Relatively susceptible to late blight
Disease Ratings
- Early dying: resistant
- Scab: resistant
- PVY: moderately susceptible
- Potato leafroll virus: resistant
- Net necrosis: moderately resistant
- Foliar and tuber late blight: susceptible
