The potato is a starchy, tuberous crop from the perennial Solanum tuberosum of the Solanaceae family. The word potato may refer to the plant itself as well.

Learn how to cook, cultivate and make wine out of potatoes. We also have a short history of the this ubiquitous root.

Easier - A potato plant is a leafy vegetable. It has a thick, uneven shaped plant stem (tuber) that grows underground.

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potato n. , pl. -toes . A South American plant (Solanum tuberosum) widely cultivated for its starchy edible tubers

Potato, which is the English term for Solanum tuberosum, is a Carib loanword. It was first "borrowed" by the Spanish, who used the word patata to describe the root crop Ipomoea ...

The potato originated in the Andes Mountains. Find out more at the Potato Site.

noun pl. potatoes-·toes. sweet potato; the starchy, brown-skinned or red-skinned tuber of a widely cultivated plant (Solanum tuberosum) of the nightshade family, eaten as a cooked ...