Potato

A potato is a consumable both appearing and mentioned across the wastelands.

Characteristics
First grown in South America, potatoes are the product of a plant also found proliferating after the Great War.

Fresh potato


Grown in the Commonwealth and Mojave Wasteland, available for purchase from a variety of traders throughout both regions.

Irradiated potato
An irradiated variant of a fresh potato, found in the Mojave.

Potato
Mentioned only in the Commonwealth, potatoes are described as extinct by the Brotherhood of Steel, who has been engaging in research on local flora. A Prydwen terminal includes information on two species of plants, a potato and a tomato, that have hybridized into a new species called a tato.

Potato
A post-War food source mentioned by Delbert Winters as growing in Appalachia. He mentions observations he has made of a hybrid variety that had pollinated with tomatoes, subsequently tasting like "ketchup-flavored cardboard."