Biology:Solanum jamesii
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Asterids |
| Order: | Solanales |
| Family: | Solanaceae |
| Genus: | Solanum |
| Species: | S. jamesii
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| Binomial name | |
| Solanum jamesii Torr.
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Solanum jamesii (common names: wild potato or Four Corners potato)[1] is a species of nightshade. Its range includes the southern United States . All parts of the plant, and especially the fruit, are toxic, containing solanine when it matures.[citation needed] The tubers were/are eaten raw or cooked by several Native American tribes,[2][3] but they require leaching and boiling in clay in order to be rendered edible. The tubers are small when compared to familiar varieties of S. tuberosum.[4]
Escalante Valley in Utah boasts the oldest archaeologically documented cultivation sites of the Four Corners potato, dating back over 7,000 years, and the plant is so prevalent there that a former name for the area was "Potato Valley".[5] S. jamesii is sometimes grown in yards or gardens as an ornamental plant, and there have been recent experiments in Escalante, Utah to start growing it as a food vegetable again, making use of the lower-alkaloid cultivars selected by the natives.[6] According to cultivariable.com, "The primary glycoalkaloid in this species is tomatine, unlike the domesticated potato, in which the primary glycoalkaloids are solanine and chaconine."
References
- ↑ "Solanum jamesii". Natural Resources Conservation Service PLANTS Database. USDA. https://plants.usda.gov/core/profile?symbol=SOJA. Retrieved 17 November 2015.
- ↑ "NAEB Text Search". http://naeb.brit.org/uses/search/?string=solanum+jamesii. Retrieved 3 December 2018.
- ↑ Kinder, David H.; Adams, Karen R.; Wilson, Harry J. (2017). "Solanum jamesii: Evidence for Cultivation of Wild Potato Tubers by Ancestral Puebloan Groups". Journal of Ethnobiology (Society of Ethnobiology) 37 (2): 218. doi:10.2993/0278-0771-37.2.218.
- ↑ "The ancient potato of the future" (in en-US). 23 November 2021. https://thecounter.org/four-corners-potato-species-indigenous-crop-navajo-nation-usda-southwest-future/.
- ↑ "Utah home to earliest use of wild potato in North America | UNews". https://unews.utah.edu/utah-home-to-earliest-use-of-wild-potato-in-north-america/.
- ↑ "Did potato cultivation begin in Utah's Escalante Valley 11,000 years ago?". http://archive.sltrib.com/article.php?id=5454302&itype=CMSID.
External links
Wikidata ☰ Q3006298 entry
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