Maris Bard

Parentage: Y15 139 x Ulster Prince

Characteristics

  • Parentage: Y15 139 x Ulster Prince

  • Maturity: First Early

  • Flowers: Red Violet

  • Tuber Shape: Long Oval

  • Tuber Skin: Cream

  • Tuber Flesh: White

Maris Bard

Resistances

Splitting
Bruising
Silver Scurf
Dry Rot (F. sulphureum)
Dry Rot (F. coeruleum)
Skin Spot
Potato Virus Y
Potato Leafroll Virus
PCN (G. Rostoch Ro1)
PCN (G. Pallida Pa 2/3, 1)
Powdery Scab
Common Scab
Blackleg
Tuber Blight
Foliage Blight

Consumer Quality

High yielding early bulking variety with good boiling and frying quality off field early in the season.

Agronomic Features

Good resistance to gangrene, drought, damage and bruising.

Sucrose %Glucose %Dry MatterMarketable %
Lionheart0.0190.00920.990.2
Markies0.0860.00919.883.5
Pentland Dell0.0960.01221.384.7
Maris Piper0.1050.02622.093.7