POLL: New World crops/plants

Fartichokes are delicious but not worth it for the seismic activity after.

ah I just realized it says sunflower up there too.

Now I get where sunchoke comes from.

From Wikipedia:

Italian settlers in the United States called the plant girasole, the Italian word for sunflower, because of its familial relationship to the garden sunflower (both plants are members of the genus Helianthus). Over time, the name girasole (pronounced closer to [dʒiraˈsuːlə] in southern Italian dialects) may have been changed to Jerusalem.

I know I'm going to sound dumb but why isnt rice in this list?

There's a variety generally called 'wild rice' that's found in the New World, but it is also found in Asia, and all the more common varieties of rice are Asian.

From Wikipedia article "Rice":

The current scientific consensus, based on archaeological and linguistic evidence, is that rice was first domesticated in the Yangtze River basin in China.[

From Wikipedia article "Wild Rice":

Wild rice (Ojibwe: manoomin; also called Canada rice, Indian rice, and water oats) are four species of grasses forming the genus Zizania, and the grain that can be harvested from them. The grain was historically gathered and eaten in North America, India and China.