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From the article: "One important staple across Polynesia is the sweet potato, which originated in South America."
by julienchastang 6y ago
From the article: "One important staple across Polynesia is the sweet potato, which originated in South America."
- totetsu 6y agoI looked into this a while ago. Unfortunately most of the pre contact sweet potato cultivars that were grown in NZ have been lost to time, as larger growing imports were adopted. There may be some original samples in a Japanese seed bank somewhere. https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10422951 https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&object... https://www.jstor.org/stable/4257220?seq=1 https://www.jstor.org/stable/4257220?seq=1