The Cherry Potato is a hybrid of a cherry and a potato. They have been hybridized to take on the taste, texture, and usefulness of a potato but in the size of a cherry. This is much like a cherry tomato. The use of cherry potatoes is growing due to it's versatility in foods. No longer do you have to use big, bulky, dirty potatoes because cherry potatoes are grown on the vine just like a tomato. It's versatility goes beyond that though, in that cooking a cherry potato takes far less time than it's larger bretheren. Cooking a cherry potato takes on a fraction of the time it takes to cook a regular potato. Depending of course on what fraction of the potato the cherry potato is. It is commonly used in mashed potatoes because boiling them to soften them up takes only minutes because of their sm