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Solanaceae

10-Solanum tuberosum plants

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Potatoes (Solanum tuberosum) are originally native to the Andes Mountains of South America. So, what did the Irish eat before Christopher Columbus "discovered" the New World?

Photo by K. R. Robertson at Simcoe, Ontario.

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