After the wreck of the Spanish Armada in 1588, Irish coastal villagers rescued potatoes and planted them. For instance, the potato was a staple food for sailors in Spanish ships. They soon became an important food staple and field crop. In the Southern Bolivian town of San Andreas, as many as 300 varieties may be showcased at the town's annual potato festival. Potatoes originated in the area of modern day Peru and then spread from South America to Spain and from there to the rest of the world after European colonization in the late 1400s and early 1500s. They are the world's most widely grown tuber crop, and the fourth largest food crop in terms of fresh produce - after rice, wheat, and maize ('corn'). The potato is the term which applies either to the starchy tuberous crop from the perennial plant Solanum tuberosum of the Solanaceae, or nightshade, family, or to the plant itself.
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