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What continent are potatoes from?

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12y ago
Updated: 8/18/2019

SOUTH AMERICA

"The potato was originally believed to have been domesticated independently in multiple locations, but later genetic testing of the wide variety of cultivars and wild species proved a single origin for potatoes in the area of present-day southern Peru and extreme northwestern Bolivia" (wikipedia)

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