Luther Burbank
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 Luther Burbank facts

• 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 (but did not create) a spineless cactus (useful for cattle-feed) and the plumcot
• Burbank's most successful strains and varieties include the Shasta daisy, the fire poppy (note possible confusion with the California wildflower, Papaver californicum, which is also called a fire poppy), the "July Elberta" peach, the "Santa Rosa" plum, the "Flaming Gold" nectarine, the "Wickson" plum (named after agronomist Edward J
• Wickson), 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 blight-resistant
• The 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