Ipomoea batatas
About
The sweet potato or sweetpotato is a dicotyledonous plant in the morning glory family, Convolvulaceae. Its sizeable, starchy, sweet-tasting tuberous roots are used as a root vegetable, which is a staple food in parts of the world. Cultivars of the sweet potato have been bred to bear tubers with flesh and skin of various colors. Moreover, the young shoots and leaves are occasionally eaten as greens. The sweet potato and the potato are only distantly related, both being in the order Solanales. Although darker sweet potatoes are often known as yams in parts of North America, they are even more distant from actual yams, which are monocots in the order Dioscoreales.
- Family
- Convolvulaceae
How to use it
This plant is cultivated globally for its sizeable, starchy, and sweet tuberous roots, which serve as a vital staple food source. Cultivars have been specifically bred to produce tubers with a wide variety of skin and flesh colors.
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In the kitchen
The large, starchy, and sweet-tasting tuberous roots of this plant are widely used as a staple root vegetable. Additionally, you can occasionally harvest and eat the young shoots and leaves as edible greens.
Sources: en.wikipedia.org
Ecology
How it lives
- Propagated by
- Seed
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- Name
- Ipomoea batatas
- Slug
- ipomoea-batatas
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Family
- Convolvulaceae
- Genus
- Ipomoea
- Species
- batatas
- Propagule type
- seed
- Container suitable
- No
- Indoor suitable
- No
- OSSI pledged
- No
- Hazard level
- 1
- Data completeness
- 40
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