POTATO 'Yukon Gem'

Yellow skin with pink eyes, yellow flesh. A modern take on old familiar Yukon Gold, with higher yields and better disease resistance. Matures about 10 days later than Yukon Gold, but worth the wait. Yukon is from a contraction of the words in the Gwich’in phrase chųų gąįį han, which means ‘white water river’ and refers to the pale color of glacial runoff in the Yukon River. Indigenous Royalties paid on this variety to a Wabanaki project in Maine.