Potato Variety - Sangre

Characteristics Shape: Oblong Skin: Red Flesh: White Market Use: Fresh Markets Early to Medium Maturing

Sangre is an early, medium-maturing, fresh market red potato released in 1982 by Colorado State University (APJ 59:435-437,1982). It is considered excellent for baking and boiling and ranks high in taste tests. It has a relatively high level of Vitamin C (20.0mg/l00gm fresh weight basis). This cultivar is slow emerging with a medium vine and lavender flower. Sangre has a determinate growth habit and a moderate to shallow, concentrated root system. Tubers are white fleshed, oval and smooth with a deep red skin color; eyes are shallow and well distributed; low specific gravity (1.077).