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Sweet potatoes are native to the tropical parts of South America, and were domesticated there at least 5000 years ago.
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Alan J was first, and correct, with:
Tropical South America
mj answered:
It started in
Central America/the Caribbean basin and propspered, spreading everywhere. Tasty, especially when baked, peeled, sliced and cooked up with butter, maple syrup, cinnamon, and brown sugar.
BadtotheboneBob wrote:
The Sweet Potatoe* was first cultivated long ago in a South American land far, far away... or so it says...
Marian replied:
Peru
Sally said:
Sweet potatoes are root tubers and were first domesticated in the tropical lowland regions of South America - perhaps Peru...
Sweet Tatter Pie, yummy!!
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Charlie responded:
Tropical South America.
Adam answered:
Bright solstice to everyone!
Sweet potatoes were probably first domesticated somewhere between the Orinoco River in Venezuela north to the Yucatan Peninsula of Mexico.
Jim from CA, retired to ID, answered:
The sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas) is a root crop, probably first domesticated somewhere between the Orinoco river in Venezuela north to the Yucatan Peninsula of Mexico
MAM wrote:
Found in Peru, about 2500 BC.
And, Joe S answered:
Sweet potatoes are native to the tropical parts of South America, and were domesticated there at least 5000 years ago. Austin (1988) postulated that the center of origin of I. batatas was between the Yucatán Peninsula of Mexico and the mouth of the Orinoco River in Venezuela. The 'cultigen' had most likely been spread by local people to the Caribbean and South America by 2500 BC. Zhang et al. (1998) provided strong supporting evidence that the geographical zone postulated by Austin is the primary center of diversity. The much lower molecular diversity found in Peru-Ecuador suggests that this region be considered as secondary center of sweet potato diversity.
The sweet potato was also grown before western exploration in Polynesia, where it is called the kumara, remarkably similar to the Quechua kumar in Peru. Sweet potato has been radiocarbon-dated in the Cook Islands to 1000 AD, and current thinking is that it was brought to central Polynesia c. 700 AD, possibly by Polynesians who had traveled to South America and back, and spread across Polynesia to Hawaii and New Zealand from there. It is possible however, that South Americans brought it to the Pacific. The theory that the plant could spread by floating seeds across the ocean is not supported by evidence. Another point is that the sweet potato in Polynesia is the cultivated Ipomoea batatas, which is generally spread by vine cuttings, and not by seeds
I've reprinted all of that for one, it's interesting, for another because people seem to think that Indians (Native Americans) were too stupid to do things like sail across oceans. At least that's the prevailing thought. So sweet potatoes made it to Polynesia, is it a stretch of the imagination to think that Indians carried them there? By the way, I LOVE sweet potatoes.
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The group of bats found last winter in the New Hampshire bunker was small, recalled von Oettingen, an endangered species biologist for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. But two of the three species discovered there - the Northern Long-eared Bat and the Little Brown Bat - have been dying off from the disease.
Starting as early as next month, von Oettingen will be part of a group of state and federal biologists monitoring that bunker and a few others in the state. They'll study temperature and humidity levels and put up footholds for the bats, hoping to attract more and figure out if there's a way to control white-nose syndrome, first discovered near Albany, N.Y., in 2006.
The disease, which appears to affect bats mostly during winter hibernation, has killed more than a million in the Northeast and has spread to at least 11 states, as far west as Oklahoma, and parts of Canada. Some caves on federal lands were closed to people this year to prevent them from spreading the disease.
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