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Home » Vegetables » Root Vegetables » Potatoes » All-Purpose Potatoes » Penobscot Potatoes

Penobscot Potatoes

Penobscot Potatoes are oblong, with light-buff skin.

They were promoted as all-purpose for direct to consumer sales and for processing into potato chips (aka crisps in the UK.)

Not being grown commercially as of 2006.

History Notes

Penobscot Potatoes were developed jointly by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) and the University of Maine from a cross between Katahdin potatoes and a potato referred to as “USDA X927-3.”

During development, the potato was referred to as “B3563-2.”

Released 1963.

This page first published: Apr 19, 2005 · Updated: Jun 1, 2018.

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