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Every Potato Type Explained in 14 Minutes

Irish Lumper. A single potato variety killed a million people and triggered the largest mass migration in Western history. How did one root vegetable collapse an entire nation? Ireland in the 1840s wasn't just eating potatoes—they were surviving on them. Eight million people. One crop. Zero backup plan. The Irish Lumper was perfect for Ireland's climate. High yield, grew in terrible soil, fed families on tiny plots of land. By 1845, one-third of the Irish population depended entirely on this single variety. Not potatoes in general—this specific potato. Then Phytophthora infestans arrived. Potato blight. A fungus-like organism that turned fields black in days. The Irish Lumper had zero genetic diversity. Every plant was a clone. When the blight hit one, it killed them all. Entire harvests rotted in the ground. One million dead from starvation and disease. Two million emigrated. Ireland's population dropped from 8.5 million to 6 million in six years and never recovered. The Irish Famine wasn't a natural disaster—it was a monoculture catastrophe with a body count.