Most beautiful potatoes

I dug these up today - enough for two meals for us.

beautiful potatoes

Under the fragile skin (which I removed when washing them) the potatoes are a dark violet colour. Inside - a ring of purple.

The best this is that I didn't plant these - they were actually growing in a bed that hasn't had potatoes in (deliberately) for three years. I obviously didn't notice the plant surviving from year to year. These volunteers are from a variety that was given to me a few years ago as 'Skye Blue'. If I were naming them I'd call them something like 'galaxy', as the colour and patterning remind me of the night sky.

Anyone got more beautiful potato pictures to share?

Beautiful!  I dug up about 8 potatoes yesterday, but nothing like those!  

My potatoes aren't senescing yet, so I don't have pictures from this season. But here are three I dug out of my archive. The only pics I could find of tuber-interiors were pictures of cooking.

Those TPS potatoes are gorgeous Christopher! It's fascinating to see the different colours and shapes! I'm growing some potatoes from seed this year, but I'm not expecting a big harvest unfortunately, although the ones that survive will be slug resistant

I really like the various potatoes presented in arrays whether they're about to go in the oven as above or freshly harvested, below. There's something magical about them all lined up together -- little compartments of jewels.  

(On years when I have a good bean harvest, I like to sort them, just as a "playing with my treasure" activity, even though I'm just going to mix them up again for cooking.)