Potato
Solanum tuberosum
Poisonous plant: do not eat any part of it.
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At a glance
- Scientific name
- Solanum tuberosum
- Group
- Eudicots
- Order
- Solanales
- Family
- Solanaceae
- Continent
- South America
- Habitat
- Fields
- Form
- Herb
- Leaves
- Shed in winter
- Flower colour
- White, Purple
- Blooms in
- Summer
- Use
- Food
- Difficulty in WildGuessr
- Easy
Did you know?
- Farmers in the Andes domesticated it about 8,000 years ago.
- Peru alone grows thousands of native varieties, in colours from purple to yellow.
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Similar plants
- Deadly nightshade
Atropa bella-donna
- Capsicum
Capsicum annuum
- Tomato
Solanum lycopersicum
Classification, names and conservation status come from Wikidata (CC0), the photo from Wikimedia Commons. Wikidata Q10998 · All plants · All entries