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the underground vault where plants stash sugar and quietly grow a backup version of themselves.

clone armyeach eye can sprout a genetically identical new plant
not a rootpotatoes are swollen stems, not roots
toxic greensunlight turns potato skin green and poisonous
famine stakesone tuber blight starved a million Irish in 1840s
ancient larderAndean farmers freeze-dried tubers into chuño millennia ago
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