< Sree Pallavi
Sree Pallavi
  • Year of release: 1987
  • Pedigree: Selection from germplasm collection from Meghalaya
  • Yield: 16 t ha-1
  • Potential yield:18 t ha-1
  • Maturity:7 months
  • Suitable growing regions: Kerala

  • Key traits:
    • Tall erect variety with droopy leaves having undulate green margin with green petiole
    • Flowering type; corm shape conical, big
    • Cormel club shaped, small and numerous
    • Tuber skin colour brown; tuber flesh colour white
    • Good cooking quality
    • field tolerant to leaf blight (Phytophthora colocasiae) and Dasheen mosaic virus