The stems are usually crawling on the ground and form adventitious roots at the nodes. The plant is a herbaceous perennial vine, bearing alternate triangle-shaped or palmately lobed leaves and medium-sized sympetalous flowers.
batatas are grown as ornamental plants under the name tuberous morning glory, and used in a horticultural context. The genus Ipomoea that contains the sweet potato also includes several garden flowers called morning glories, though that term is not usually extended to I. aquatica "kangkong"), but many are poisonous. batatas is the only crop plant of major importance-some others are used locally (e.g., I. Of the approximately 50 genera and more than 1,000 species of Convolvulaceae, I. Sweet potato is native to the tropical regions of the Americas. Although darker sweet potatoes are often referred to as "yams" in parts of North America, the species is not a true yam, which are monocots in the order Dioscoreales. Sweet potato is only distantly related to the common potato ( Solanum tuberosum), both being in the order Solanales.
Murasaki potato skin#
Cultivars of the sweet potato have been bred to bear tubers with flesh and skin of various colors.
The young shoots and leaves are sometimes eaten as greens. Its large, starchy, sweet-tasting tuberous roots are used as a root vegetable. The sweet potato or sweetpotato ( Ipomoea batatas) is a dicotyledonous plant that belongs to the bindweed or morning glory family, Convolvulaceae.
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