FINDING NATURE’S- TREASURES 
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“The potato plant is not thinking about us,” said Uncle 
Jack. “It puts the food there for its own babies to eat 
next year. The plant does not live long. When the potato 
is full grown, the plant begins to die. Those little spots 
on the potato, which you call eyes, are really buds. They 
are very much like the buds on branches that grow above 
the ground. In the spring baby potato plants grow from 
those eyes, or buds. While these plants are growing, 
they eat the food that the mother plant stored in the 
potato for them.” 
“Here is a baby plant starting to grow from an eye,” 
said Buddy. 
