who discovered the potato

The potato was not “discovered” by a single person; it was first domesticated by Indigenous peoples of the Andes in present‑day Peru and northwest Bolivia thousands of years ago, long before Europeans arrived. Spanish conquistadors then became the first Europeans to encounter and carry it to Europe in the 1500s, from where it spread and later got wrongly linked to figures like Sir Walter Raleigh or Sir Francis Drake as supposed “discoverers.”