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Did the potato originate from Ireland?

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Why didnt the potato famine kill off the spud altogether?

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  1. they were born in south america and took a boat ride to europe but most were slaughtered when they got there and some were buried alive


  2. it started in south america and was introduced to ireland.

  3. No, it originated in South America, and Sir Walter Raleigh tried to force the potato onto the Irish - who thinking  it not only ugly, but possibly poisonous and dirty, refused to eat or grow it and  replied by forming the (S)ociety for the

    (P)revention of an (U)nclean (D)iet - or SPUD.  I was told this by an Irishman as I queued up for the Blaney Stone - I am sure it must be the truth.

  4. No Peru

  5. i concur with Snafu.

  6. The potato (L. Solanum tuberosum) is a Solanaceus/Night Shade family.

    A New World crop from Peru, along with the tomato.

    Brought to Europe by the Spanish.

    The blight did not kill all the potato plants in Ireland.

    Ireland is big geographically.

    Much of the famine, or poor people staving, was due to political reasons.

  7. No! Potatoes were introduced to Europe from the Andes.  It is said that when introduced to Elizabeth 1 she cooked the stalks and threw tubers away.

    There were a few areas of Ireland which were not affected by the Famine.

  8. yes

  9. Since we are digressing into politics of the famine, a big part of the reason for the famine still is part of potato culture. We clone just a small population without benefit of cross pollination getting to ever fewer genetic variants in a population that spreads over vast numbers of farm lands. If a disease comes driving by that is able to deal with any single plant, it is also able to kill every one of its clones, up to and including a whole county's potatoes.

    Fortunately some areas had cloned from a different ancestor.

  10. no..it came from south america around the peru and bolivia area

  11. NOOOOOOOOO!

    South America, in the Andes, near Peru.

  12. The potato originated from South America, specifically, the Inca grew it in what is today Peru and Bolivia, and, after the Spanish conquistadors discovered the Incan Empire in the early 1500s, they brought the potato back to Europe, where it eventually found it's way to Ireland.

    There must have been a few potato plants that were very hardy and / or did not come in contact with the blight that caused the potato famine, so that, after the blight had passed, the potato plant could return and grow once again.

  13. No, it actually originated from what nowadays we call Peru, Bolivia.

  14. Potatos came from the planet of Zorinacco, in deep outer space. It was discovered by Gilburt Gellapio who was the king of the Mofreekins, 1843-1942bc.

    ...no not really, I just felt like making a random statement of insanity.

    South America is the True Answer, my Ireland Lady.

    Allavista baby!...I concur snafu?..who the @!%* is snafu?...sounds like someone has a cold, a-chew!

  15. No good old Spud is an America of the southern variety he is likely to get blighted so his off springs are raised in the Scottish Isles to help avoid disease and grow to become a chip off the old blokes block.

  16. The potato originated from South America

  17. no it was orriginally from south amerca and was imported

  18. YOU ARE ALL WRONG IT WAS WARKERS AND GARRY LINEKAR

  19. they came from America. I think it was Walter Raleigh that brought them back along with tobacco.

  20. Potatoes originated in the area of modern day Peru and then spread from South America to Spain and from there to the rest of the world after European colonization in the late 1400s and early 1500s. In the Southern Bolivian town of San Andreas, as many as 300 varieties may be showcased at the town's annual potato festival

  21. The potato (potatoe if you're Dan Quayle) is from western South America.  It's introduction to Irish agriculture helped the Irish become much more self reliant and independant from England.  This of course changed when the famile struck.

  22. well it might as well have..come 4m ireland that is!

    we made the most of it.....

    mash potato

    boiled potato

    stick em in a stew

    oh...fried potato

    potato&bacon mmmm.....

    shepards pie

    well ive clearly proved my point....

    im going  2 get me sum taters now mmmmmmmmmm....

  23. No, Paddington Bear Land.

  24. Potato came from South America as most of the answerer correctly  said.  But when it was brought to Europe they only brought one variety and therefore the potatoes growing in Ireland were genetically similar and when  the disease that turned the potato tuber black and inedible due to the growth of the disease. All the potatoes that they had were susceptible to the disease.



    The famine was something else. There were other food  that they were growing before  potatoes came to Europe but they were controlled by  England and they were not given out as aid to the stricken poor Irish, so the result was famine. (The rich Irish did not suffer much).

    There are potatoes in Ireland today and they are new hybrids using genes from Native potatoes from South America. The disease are still there but the new varieties are more resistant to the disease that was responsible for the potato crop failure during the Irish famine. Besides Irish has a more varied diet now and does not depend solely on potatoes.

  25. No.  The conquistadors brought them back to Europe from Peru.
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