Re: Potato

["Eric G . Miller" <egm2@jps.net>]

On Tue, May 30, 2000 at 12:33:56PM +0200, Kerstin Hoef-Emden wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> On Tue, 30 May 2000, Corey Popelier wrote:
> 
> > Well, irrelevantly to Debian its a carbohydrate.
> 
> Hmm, as a biologist, I cannot leave it like that.
> 
> A potato is a specialised starch storage organ of the potato plant,
> necessary for vegetative reproduction. Starch is the carbohydrate, but
> potato is the name for the organ and not for its content. 

Well, I was going to say about the same thing, but I couldn't remember
if a potato was a real tuber, or a corm or a rhizome, ... Been awhile
since Botany 101...  (I don't think there's an 'irrelevantly' in the
English language either. ;)

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