Fw: [permaculture-oceania] New potato in Australia, frozen seeds in Norway

[P Ferguson]

Russ wrote re> Bush Potatoes
> Biologist Peter Latz decided to investigate reports of giant pumpkins in 
> an
> area about 200 kilometres north east of Alice Springs.  What he found was 
> a > new species of bush potato, which grows in very low nutrition soils, 
> making > it an ideal food crop for soil depleted countries.

A friend points out that there is a similar sounding 'potato' as big as 
someone's head which grows in the Kalahari Desert in Africa.  Could it be 
the same plant, or a relation?

P Ferguson
Illawarra NSW