Bintje

The Bintje has been the variety of Potato the most cultivated in France and Belgium, and this for 50 years. Produced especially in North, its flesh is farinaceous. It is appropriate to make boil, roast, fry, for salad, soup, gratin and mashed potatoes. It is the potato of the fried Belgian.

Descriptive card

Genetic origin : Munterschen X Franschen (Yellow of gold)

Obtentor (S): L. VRIES - (Netherlands)

Inscription with the French catalog (1935)

Category: Consumption

Maturity: Half-early

Descriptive characters

Tuber: Oblong, regular, surface eyes, yellow skin, yellow flesh.

Germ: Purple, conical, average pilosity.

Plant: Cut rather high, port half-drawn up, standard semi-leafy tree.

Stem: Entrenœuds fairly pigmented, nodes slightly pigmented, with the developed wings, rectilinear and undulated.

Sheet: Frank green, little divided, semi-open; average leaflet, oval (I = 1,78); plane limb.

Flowering: Fairly abundant.

Fleur: White, partially pigmented floral button.

Fructification: Very rare.

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