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Potato

A starchy tuber. Native to a region of South America that includes part of Bolivia and southern Peru. The vast majority of current cultivated varieties are descended from one Peruvian variety. Potatoes quickly became a staple of many a European diet. They, thus, allowed for great population growth in Europe but conversely, although not their fault, to a great loss of life in the Irish Potato Famine of 1845-52 due to a lack of genetic variation and an exceptional vulnerability to mould.

offtopic/potato.txt · Last modified: 2019/03/29 15:13 by 127.0.0.1

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