Myatt's Ashleaf

((NOTE: In 2022, I received 3 in vitro plantlets, which I grew out and got several small tubers. 2023 UPDATE: I have grown out those small tubers from 2022 and I now have plenty available for sharing, so please let me know if you are interested.)) Medium - small oblong tubers with yellow skin and pale yellow flesh. Bred in England and released in 1804. W3 claims this to be an important breeding cultivar in pre-1845 England. There aren’t many European potato varieties that survived the introduction of late blight that led to the Irish Potato Famine in 1845. Lumper is probably the best known of these, but Myatt’s Ashleaf may predate it, with some accounts indicating an introduction as early as 1804. The early European potatoes were mostly derived from Andean varieties. These varieties lacked resistance to late blight and quickly went extinct after 1845. They were replaced by Chilean potatoes, which became the basis of potato breeding in Europe and the United States from then on.