Where the tomatoes and the potatoes come from?!
Where the tomatoes and the potatoes come from?
According to US history where the first tomato and potato comes from and who discover them?
Answers: According to Andrew F Smith's The Tomato in America, the tomato probably originated in the highlands of the west coast of South America.
There is general agreement among contemporary botanists that the potato originated in the Andes, all the way from Colombia to northern Argentina.
See Wikipedia links for more infomation. Source(s):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/tomato...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/potato... Tomatoes and potatoes are originally from South America, probably in the Andes for both. They weren't discovered by anyone because they were domesticated by aboriginal peoples pre-Contact.