Sree Shilpa
  • Year of release: 1998
  • Pedigree: Hybrid (Da - 140 x Sree Keerthi)
  • Yield: 28 t ha-1
  • Potential yield: 40.4 t ha-1
  • Maturity: 8 months
  • Suitable growing regions: Kerala

  • Key traits:
    • Climber twining to right, male plant with purplish green vine
    • Green emerging leaf and cordate leaves with overlapping lobes
    • Swollen, oval, smooth tuber with black skin, yellow cortex and white flesh colour
    • Tubers with less starch (17.0-19.0%) and medium protein (1.4-2.0%) content
    • Purple petiole
    • Excellent cooking quality
    • World's first hybrid variety released in D. alata
    • Medium sized oval tubers with easy harvestability