Bloomer potato

Bloomer is a potato variety. Bloomers produce round purplish-blue tubers with fairly deep eyes. The flesh is cream coloured.

Bloomer
Genus	Solanum
Species	Solanum tuberosum
Cultivar	'Bloomer'
Origin	County Clare, Ireland, 1936

The bloomer potato produces an abundance of beautiful white flowers, which presumably helped name the variety.^[1] Davidson (1936) described this as an old variety found growing in the Midlands of Ireland but of no commercial value. It was noted by Kehoe (1986) as being unique to the Irish potato collection.^[2]

References

1. Irish seed savers 2010 seed catalogue
2. "Potato Varieties of Historical Interest in Ireland" (PDF). Ireland's Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food. Archived from the original (PDF) on 21 June 2013. Retrieved 14 January 2011.