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I did some web searching after reading this but didn’t find an answer to my questions:

This particular cultivar was brought from Africa to North America and was considered “extinct” once it was no longer planted in North America. But what about Africa? Is it no longer grown in Africa? Why not?

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My understanding is that peanuts originated in either Peru or Brazil. At least that's what some claim:

https://www.aboutpeanuts.com/all-about-peanuts/origin-histor...

That doesn't preclude this cultivar being African in origin. Could have made it to Africa in the 1500s, undergone selective breeding there, and returned to North American via the slave trade later. (See also: North American potatoes coming from Europe, not directly from the Andes.)

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