A documented consignment of potatoes reaches Europe

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1. Story
2. A shipment of potatoes sent from Gran Canaria to Antwerp is the earliest firm documentary evidence commonly cited for the tuber's arrival in Europe, identified in the customs and merchant records studied by Hawkes and Francisco-Ortega. It indicates that the crop was already being grown commercially in the Canaries as a re-export within a few decades of contact. Adoption as a European field staple took far longer — the potato entered as a botanical curiosity and became a food crop over roughly two centuries.
3. Knowledge
4. The Columbian Exchange
5. Potato (Solanum tuberosum)
6. A documented consignment of potatoes reaches Europe
7. Connections
8. Potato (Solanum tuberosum)
9. The Columbian Exchange
10. The Columbian Exchange
11. A documented consignment of potatoes reaches Europe
12. Silver
13. The Atlantic crossing (Carrera de Indias)
14. Potato (Solanum tuberosum)
15. Maize (Zea mays)
16. The post-contact population collapse of the Americas
17. Maize appears in Chinese local records
18. A documented consignment of potatoes reaches Europe
19. Evidence
20. The documentary evidence for the earliest potato consignments to Europe, including the 1567 shipment from Gran Canaria to Antwerp. V55 verification basis: NOT consulted in this session. The authors and the substance are given from the author's knowledge; the journal volume and pagination are NOT asserted because they could not be checked, and a curator should confirm which of the two related papers carries the 1567 evidence.