The first image of potatoes in Europe (Clusius, 1588)
The native land of the potato is South America, where wild-growing species of this plant can still be found. The introduction of potatoes into the culture (first through the exploitation of wild thickets) was started about 9-7 thousand years ago in the territory of modern Bolivia [1]. Indians not only used potatoes for food, but also worshiped him, considering him an animated being.

In Europe, potatoes appeared in the second half of the 16th century and was first adopted as an ornamental plant, and poisonous. Finally proved that the potato has high taste and nutritional qualities, the French agronomist Antoine-Auguste Parmantier (1737-1813).