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Huakaroro Taewa Potato

Huakaroro Taewa Potato has been planted 1 time by Growstuff members.

Pre-European potato from Aotearoa New Zealand. (Taewa)

Yellow fleshed, yellow-skinned knobbly ugly looking Māori potato. Good for chips. Waxy when young and fluffy when mature. A good keeper with a buttery rich flavour.

This potato is a creamy skinned, with a creamy coloured, very waxy flesh and deep eyes. It is a small, round, hard potato, excellent for potato salads, and steaming. Beautiful in a hāngī.

Grow for five months.

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Predictions

Annual

living and reproducing in a single year or less

Median lifespan

19 weeks

First harvest expected

15 weeks after planting

Last harvest expected

19 weeks after planting

Photos

Huakaroro taewa potato crops

Huakaroro taewa potato plantings

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Huakaroro taewa potato harvests

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Potatoes and taewa
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What people are saying about huakaroro taewa potatoes

The year of the potatoes

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[Potatoes and taewa](https://flic.kr/p/2ioVEEy) ![Potatoes and taewa](https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/49486191516_bb0a920ea9.jpg) This year i grew ELEVEN types of potato over summer.. [Waiporoporo Taewa Potato](crop) that were [ready early](/plantings/shiny-front-lawn-pots-and-potato...

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Karoro potato at Koanga Institute

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Note from Koanga institute about [huakaroro taewa potato](crop) Sent to Koanga by Rex Mundy of Kerikeri. He said it came from the Banks Peninsula, "growing there as long as the locals can remember at an isolated bay, among the boulders on the foreshore. The runners went long distances undergro...

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Note from Koanga

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Growing notes for: [huakaroro taewa potato](crop) 2012 - Medium height, strong top growth but very very crinkly leaves, and some yellow blotching average weight 1kg 2013 - More even line, but poor yield. 201...

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How to grow huakaroro taewa potatoes

Grown for: tuber (2) whole plant (1)


huakaroro taewa potato is a variety of potato

Scientific names

None known.

Alternate names

huakaroro
Karoro
peru ma

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