potatoes??

Question

they come from spain. Don't they?

Answer 1

The potatoe originated in the Andes Mountains of Peru. The potato was planted more than 6,000 years ago. It was discovered by Pizarro and his Spanish in the early 1500's in Ecuador. They then brought potatoes to Spain, Italy and France. In the late 1500's potatoes were brought to England from South America.

Now you can find them anywhere.

Answer 2

Potatoes are grown in Idaho and Maine, and there are still some potatoes grown on eastern Long Island.
Potatoes prefer sandy soil.

I heard potatoes originally came from Ireland,
but I have also heard there are many varieties grown in South America.

Spain is famous for the Spanish Onion, which is very big and sweet tasting. Both onions and potatoes grow underground, and have to be dug up at harvest time.

Answer 3

Andean potatoes are adapted to short day conditions and Chilean potatoes to long day conditions. There is sufficient evidence that the tetraploid Andean short day potato was the one that first arrived in Southern Spain in about 1565, from where it spread to the rest of Europe, adapting to European long day conditions in a period of about two hundred years. In order to botanically distinguish potatoes adapted to short days from those thriving and producing tubers under long day conditions, Solanum tuberosum has been split into two subspecies by present-day taxonomists, Solanum tuberosum ssp. tuberosum (adapted to long days) and Solanum tuberosum ssp. andigena (adapted to short days.) Apart from their different photoperiodic reaction, these two subspecies are also distinct morphologically, though the differences are apparent only to an experienced taxonomist. Russian taxonomists did, in fact, create two different species in the early part of the 20th century, Solanum tuberosum and Solanum andigenum, to mark the same distinction. The process of adaptation to long days has happened once before as the potato moved from the Andes to the south of the continent. This was before the Europeans arrived in South America. Chile still has a large amount of valuable potato germplasm adapted to long days.

Historical and genetic evidence suggests that the potato reached India not very much later than Europe, probably taken there by the Portuguese. In isolated areas in the Himalayas of India and Nepal, so called "desi" potatoes are still grown, and they are very similar to the short day adapted modern Andean potato, Solanum tuberosum ssp. andigena.

Answer 4

Idaho, USA. There are some specialty potatoes that come from Spain. Fingerlings is one I think.

Answer 5

potatoes are grown around the world

Answer 6

originally I believe south America

Answer 7

You can grow potatoes almost anywhere.

Answer 8

They come from northern Maine. Trust me I live here.

Answer 9

Yeah...and Idaho.

Answer 10

there and many more places. why do you think they are so cheep?!?!?