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Maris Piper Potato
General Description:
Plant:
APPEARANCE: The leaf is medium sized, narrow, with rough primary leaflets with
a wavy margin, and has many medium sized cupped secondary leaves with
many purple flowers with white tips on a long stalk and an abundance of
berries. CLICK HERE to buy Maris Piper seed potatoes and other varieties of seed potatoes from our
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The Maris Piper is a maincrop potato with high yields and many tubers per plant. Resistant to potato cyst
damage and bruising. It is also suitable for storage. Moderately
susceptible to slugs. It has good cooking and frying qualities
The Maris Piper potato plant is tall, erect and with many stems. It has
small light green light glossy closed leaves.
The tubers of the Maris Piper potato are short oval, medium to small with cream skin and cream
flesh and a pleasant floury texture, with shallow eyes.
COOKING USES:
This variety is excellent for
Boiling,
Wedges,
Baking and chipping.