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Pimpernel
Also Pimpernell
- From
- Netherlands
- When
- 1953; approved in Norway 1962
- Bred or kept by
- G. S. Mulder (ECPD lists GS Mulder and Franz von Zwehl Saatzucht)
- Parents
- Populair × Mulder K 101 (Bravo x Alpha)
- How sure
- origin partly
- Shape
- medium, oval to long-oval, even
- Proportion
- not measured
- Size
- unknown
- Bend
- none
- Knobs
- none
- Skin
- dark red, smooth
- Flesh
- strong (deep) yellow
- Eyes
- shallow, unknown
- Dormancy
- long
- Flesh type
- floury
- Health
- Resistant to wart and strong against late blight on foliage and tubers; weak against common scab (NIBIO). Darkens after peeling. Strong against drought.
- The name
- unknown. Pimpernel is the English and Dutch name of a small wild flower; whether the breeder meant it is not documented.
The colour swatches are the flat colours the drawings use, read from photos and lifted to even daylight; the card says how.
What it looks like. A medium, even, oval to long-oval tuber with smooth dark red skin, shallow eyes and strong yellow flesh. No photo was found under a usable licence, so the colours are chosen from the words: a deep brick red skin (#8E2F2C) and an egg-yolk yellow flesh (#F0C93C), the darkest red and the deepest yellow in this first set. Proportions are null until real tubers are photographed.
How it lives. Pimpernel is the slow one. It sprouts late and grows slowly at first, then becomes a tall, drought-strong plant with long stolons that wander out of the row. It is one of the latest table varieties grown in Norway, has a long dormancy and keeps very well (NIBIO, ECPD). It is strong against blight, unusually for a classic Norwegian table potato.
Family. Pimpernel is a parent of Norwegian varieties: Laila (Pimpernell x (Doon Star x Åspotet), 1969) and Hårek (Pimpernel x Beate, 1985), and per the atlas also Troll, Ottar and Vestar (not rechecked). Through Hårek it is linked to Beate.
Body facts that carry story. Last to wake, last to spoil. Stolons that leave the row. Yellow flesh that darkens once peeled.
In the cellar
Where sources disagree
parents
NIBIO: Populair x Mulder K 101
ECPD: Populair x [Bravo x Alpha (= Mulder K 101)]
How we settled it: Same cross: ECPD spells out that Mulder K 101 is itself Bravo x Alpha.
Still unknown
- No licensed photo found (Commons, Openverse). length_to_width, bend and hex values are from descriptions only; needs a photo of real tubers.
- Approval year in Norway (1962) is from the atlas, not rechecked in a primary source.
- Breeder: ECPD lists two names; which one bred it and which one held or marketed it is not confirmed.
- Name meaning.
Sources
- kvann.no: NIBIO: from the Netherlands 1953, Populair x Mulder K 101; sprouts and grows slowly at first; many strong stems, tall upright haulm; drought strong; strong root system and long stolons that spread and sometimes grow out of the drill; medium tubers, oval to long-oval, shallow eyes; dark red skin, strong yellow flesh; late to very late; long dormancy, very good keeper; table and factory potato; darkens after peeling; very high dry matter, very good eating quality; strongly red-violet flowers; resistant to wart, strong against blight, weak against common scab; also: Hårek is Pimpernel x Beate (NLH 1985), Laila is Pimpernell x (Doon Star x Åspotet), 1969
- europotato.org: ECPD: Populair x [Bravo x Alpha (= Mulder K 101)]; breeders GS Mulder, Franz von Zwehl Saatzucht; Netherlands; skin red; flesh yellow to deep yellow; oval to round or oval to long; eyes shallow to medium; dormancy long to very long; very mealy to mealy; very high dry matter
- nibio.no: NIBIO online page for the variety