A tropical American plant with edible tubers, also known as oca or wood sorrel.
From Quechua 'ati', the indigenous South American name for this cultivated root vegetable that has been grown for thousands of years in the Andes.
The atis plant shows how colonial trade networks spread foods globally—Europeans discovered this Andean staple and it eventually spread to Europe, Africa, and Asia, creating a truly global crop.
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