Gregory Vaughan has news for fans of oca, and other Andean roots and tubers.
I just got back from the Parque de la Papa, and it turns out that they are indeed in the midst of a new repatriation of something like 78 accessions of virus-free oca (I think it’s just oca, with no mashua or ulluco yet) from CIP. They have transferred the vitro plants to soil bags that they are raising in a sterile greenhouse.
If anyone is interested, I’m working on a project with the UPTC in Tunja, Colombia to investigate and promote our local varieties of these tubers and other native Andean crops.
And yes Gregory, we’re interested.