Maris Piper

Maris Piper is the most widely grown potato in the United Kingdom, bred by the Plant Breeding Institute in Cambridge and released in 1966. Named in the institute's Maris series, it became the national favorite for chips and roast potatoes. The oval tubers have smooth cream-buff skin and creamy-white flesh with a fluffy, floury texture ideal for frying, roasting, and mashing, though it can break up if over-boiled. A maincrop variety, it yields heavily and stores well, and it carries resistance to the potato cyst nematode Globodera rostochiensis, an important pest of potatoes. Its dependable cooking quality has made it a fixture in British kitchens and chip shops for decades.