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Skerry Champion

potato variety

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 2, 2021
Entity authorityQ7534702 ↗
Source-derived summary

Skerry Champion is a variety of potato with a round-to-oval shape and creamy yellow skin with a beautiful blue/purple "birthmark" colouring. 'Skerry Champions' have only recently become available to growers again after a long period of absence due to a host of viral diseases it was carrying. Taste quality is excellent with a lovely flavour and floury texture. They are quite highly resistant to blight however the tops of diseased haulms should be removed to keep tubers healthy. It has also been known as Buchan Beauty and although introduced into Ireland in 1922, may have existed in the UK before then.

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The public source identifies “Skerry Champion” as potato variety. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Skerry, Champion and potato.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1922—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Skerry, Champion and potato providing the first useful test.
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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 2, 2021. The linked authority identifier is Q7534702. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1922.

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This entry incorporates text from “Skerry Champion” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.