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It is native to the tropical lowlands of Mesoamerica and South America. Reported from sites in Peru as early as 8000 bc, probably domesticated by c.2000 bc, if not earlier. In the first millennium ad the sweet potato was taken to Polynesia and New Zealand, and after the Spanish settlement of the New World.

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