please enjoy this knowledge graph about potatoes* i made 

*non-exhaustive

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yam = Dioscoreales order

sweet potato = Ipomoea batatas, part of Solanales order

russet potato = Solanum tuberosum, part of Solanales order

sweet potatoes and potatoes are dicotyledonous plants while yams are monocots

fun fact: night shade is part of the Solanales family 👻 

all hail the potato

My comment was 100% based on feeling lol, appreciate the info, need to add member of Solanum tuberosum to my bio 😂

potatoes are one of my internet holes I fell into after I learned there is a potato bunker in Lima, Peru that has securely stored over 4500 (!!!) different species of potato

how cool is that. that’s so many types of potato

Here are two of the sites the Incas used to research and experiment with different breeds of corn (and potato iirc).

Saw it a few months ago and I’m still in awe of Peruvian cuisine, it’s otherworldly