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> 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.

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

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.”

Right below the Gulf of America! /s

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