Wild Andean Potato - Solanum acaule - 15 seeds (NOT tubers)
This is very
ornamental low plant which creates profusion of lovely blue flowers
and golden fruits later. Rare vegetable - small (1-4cm=0,5-1,5inch
diameter) white delicious tubers (they are said to be edible when cooked). The seeds
should be sown surface in pots in light place and replanted outside
after last frosts. This species belongs to taxonomic Acaulia series.
Native to Peru, Bolivia and N.W. Argentina - on alpine meadows, by
patchs, walls, drainage ditches, cultivated fields, etc. at altitude
2600 - 4650 meters (8666-15500 ft). Something frost hardy. Species
potato blight / alternariose resistant (in a large degree). Can be
hybridized with other wild and cultivated potatoes. The best grow it in medium to large size pots, due to plants have long stolons (then there is easier to harvest the tubers). Package 15 seeds (true, small, dry seeds - NOT tubers). Only a few packages available.