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		alanvillalobos 77 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How Potatoes Evolved > There are around 140 species of wild potato in South America, growing from Mexico in the north all the way down to Argentina and Chile in the south. This one always bothers me. Mexico is in North America.

rishi_devan 77 days ago | [–]

Perhaps the word "Latin America" would have been more apt?

tshaddox 77 days ago | | [–]

I suppose that coincidentally works in this case where they’re inexplicably omitting the wild potato species in the United States.

I personally would have just gone with “the Americas.”

pstuart 77 days ago | [–]

Right below the Gulf of America! /s

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