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Home » Vegetables » Root Vegetables » Potatoes » Chipping Potatoes » Somerset Potatoes

Somerset Potatoes

Somerset Potatoes are oblong, with light-buff skin.

They are meant for processing into potato chips (aka crisps in the UK.)

History Notes

Somerset Potatoes were developed jointly by the University of Maine and the University of Pennsylvania from a cross between two potatoes referred to as “B6097-9” and “B6516-5.”

During development, the potato was referred to as “AF236-1.”

Released 1988.

This page first published: Apr 16, 2005 · Updated: May 19, 2018.

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