Irish Lumper

Potato 'Irish Lumper'
GenusSolanum
SpeciesSolanum tuberosum
Cultivar'Irish Lumper'

The Irish Lumper is a varietal white potato of historic interest. It has been identified as the variety of potato whose widespread cultivation throughout Ireland, prior to the 1840s, is implicated in the Irish Great Famine in which an estimated one million died.

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