Altesse is the “Royal Highness” among potatoes. An early “Nicola” type with better shape, taste and quality. Mid early, very high productive with large homogenous tubers. Tried and tested salad, which is also delicious when baked in a microwave oven.
| Parentage | Nicola x 133.84.1 | |
| Maturity | Mid early | |
| Tuber shape | Long to long oval, big, very regular | |
| Flesh colour | Yellow | |
| Skin colour | Yellow | |
| Yield | Very high | |
| Utility: | ||
| Market | Fresh consumption. Perfect marketable size | |
| Boiling quality | Waxy. Cooking type flavoured boiling/salad Good hot or cold | |
| Resistances: | ||
| Late blight - Foliage | 6 | |
| Late blight - Tuber | 8 | |
| Common scab | 6 1/2 | |
| PLRV | 7 | |
| PVA | Resistant | |
| PVX | Resistant | |
| PVY | 6 | |
| Drought tolerance | 7 | |
| Potato cyst nematode Ro1 | Resistant | |
