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The Red Pontiac (also known as Dakota Chief) is a red-skinned early main crop potato variety originally bred in the United States, [1] and is sold in the United States, Canada, Australia, Algeria, the Philippines, Venezuela and Uruguay.
19 Οκτ 2018 · In the North Carolina mountains, my husband-to-be, then a mere child whose red hair and surname announced his Celtic origins and his innate kinship with the potato, believed that there were only two varieties of potato: the red and the Arsh.
Genetic studies show that the cultivated potato has a single origin, in the area of present-day southern Peru and extreme northwestern Bolivia. Potatoes were domesticated there about 7,000–10,000 years ago from a species in the S. brevicaule complex.
10 Σεπ 2024 · In 1995, a Peruvian-American research team found that peasant families in central Peru cultivated an average of 10.6 traditional varieties – each with its own name. In the Quechua and Aymará languages of the Central Andes, there are hundreds of names for the local potato varieties.
ORIGIN: A deeper red color mutant selected from Pontiac which was released in 1938 by USDA and Michigan. Selection was made in 1945 by Weston in Florida. CHARACTERISTICS: A late season variety with round to oblong tubers with a dark red skin which may sometimes be netted. Tubers have medium to deep eyes, white flesh and low specific gravity.
The earliest known use of the noun red potato is in the early 1700s. OED's earliest evidence for red potato is from 1727, in the writing of Batty Langley, writer on architecture. red potato is formed within English, by compounding.
Aside from actual remains, the potato is also found in the Peruvian archaeological record as a design influence of ceramic pottery, often in the shape of vessels. The potato has since spread around the world and has become a staple crop in most countries.
