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Luther Burbank Park
Luther Burbank Park
Luther Burbank Park
Luther Burbank Park
Luther Burbank Park
Luther Burbank Park
Luther Burbank Park
Luther Burbank Park
Luther Burbank Park
Luther Burbank Park
Luther Burbank Park
Luther Burbank Park
Luther Burbank Park
Luther Burbank Park
Luther Burbank Park
Luther Burbank Park
Luther Burbank Park
Phone:
+1 206-275-7609

Address:
2040 84th Ave SE, Mercer Island, WA 98040, USA

Luther Burbank was an American botanist, horticulturist and pioneer in agricultural science. He developed more than 800 strains and varieties of plants over his 55-year career. Burbank's varied creations included fruits, flowers, grains, grasses, and vegetables. He developed a spineless cactus and the plumcot. Burbank's most successful strains and varieties include the Shasta daisy, the fire poppy , the July Elberta peach, the Santa Rosa plum, the Flaming Gold nectarine, the Wickson plum , the freestone peach, and the white blackberry. A natural genetic variant of the Burbank potato with russet-colored skin later became known as the russet Burbank potato. This large, brown-skinned, white-fleshed potato has become the world's predominant potato in food processing. The Russet Burbank potato was in fact invented to help with the devastating situation in Ireland during the Irish Potato famine. This particular potato variety was created by Burbank to help revive the country's leading crop as it is slightly late blight-resistant. Late blight is a disease that spread and destroyed potatoes all across Europe but caused extreme chaos in Ireland due to the high dependency on potatoes as a crop by the Irish.
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