Assistant curator Gaynor McKenzie with the mountain
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Visitors to this year's Royal Highland Show will be able to gain a unique insight into how potatoes originated and contribute to our food.
Experts at the Scottish Crop Research Institute (SCRI) have produced an 8ft high polystyrene model which shows how potatoes grow elsewhere in the world.
The mountain scene will be complete with many types of potato grown on a typical Inca settlement.
The highland show, on the outskirts of Edinburgh, will run from 21-24 June.
Dr Gavin Ramsay, one of SCRI's potato specialists, said: "We plan to show visitors something of the origins of potato and the habitats of its wild relatives, and relate this variation to the problems we face breeding crop plants in a world undergoing climate change."
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