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Peanut (Groundnut)
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Although native to South America, peanuts are very similar to groundnuts, a staple of West African cuisine. The name “goober” probably is derived from the African nguba.
 
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Tree ring section showing drought periods 1587-1589 and 1606-1612

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Dendrochronology, the study of tree rings, indicates the Jamestown colonists arrived during the worst drought period in over 800 years for the lower Chesapeake Bay area of Virginia.
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