Visual characteristics

  • Skin color:  brown skin with pronounced hulls.
  • Meat Color: intense orange.

Susceptibility / resistance to diseases
common

  • Soil rot: Intermediate – Resistant.
  • Root node: Intermediate – Resistant.
  • Fusarium wilt: Intermediate – Resistant.
  • Bacterial root rot: Intermediate.
  • Rhizopus soft rot: Intermediate.
  • Monocochaetes infuscans: Very Sensitive.
  • Rotting Fusarium root: Intermediate.

Crop Time: 150 days

Mutation of the Hernandez variety, Launched by the Louisiana Agricultural Experiment Station.