How Potatoes Evolved

Re:How Potatoes Evolved by alanvillalobos on Sunday August 10, 2025 @02:07PM (#44857048)

> There are around 140 species of wild potato in South America, growing from Mexico in the north all the way down to Argentina and Chile in the south.

This one always bothers me. Mexico is in North America.

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Re:How Potatoes Evolved by rishi_devan on Sunday August 10, 2025 @04:07PM (#44857891)

Perhaps the word "Latin America" would have been more apt?

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Re:How Potatoes Evolved by tshaddox on Sunday August 10, 2025 @05:51PM (#44858622)

I suppose that coincidentally works in this case where they’re inexplicably omitting the wild potato species in the United States.

I personally would have just gone with “the Americas.”

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Re:How Potatoes Evolved by pstuart on Sunday August 10, 2025 @02:10PM (#44857065)

Right below the Gulf of America! /s

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