Sweet Potato
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
The young leaves and shoots of sweet potatoes can be eaten as greens, adding a nutritious option to your meals. The tuberous roots are a popular root vegetable and can be prepared in various ways, such as baking, boiling, or frying.
Sources: en.wikipedia.org, en.wikipedia.org
Ecology
How it lives
- Propagated by
- Seed
Full detailsevery field on the record, to copy
- Name
- Sweet Potato
- Slug
- sweet-potato
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Family
- Convolvulaceae
- Genus
- Ipomoea
- Species
- batatas
- Category
- Root
- Wikidata QID
- Q37937
- Propagule type
- seed
- Container suitable
- No
- Indoor suitable
- No
- OSSI pledged
- No
- Hazard level
- 1
- Data completeness
- 48
Generated sections & citations
summarywikipedia
fun_facts_kidsllm_openai · confidence 0.90
- sprigloom (common_name)
- sprigloom (taxonomy)
- inaturalist (description.summary) — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ipomoea batatas
fun_facts_adultllm_openai · confidence 0.90
- sprigloom (taxonomy)
- inaturalist (description.summary) — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ipomoea batatas
- wikipedia (description.summary) — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweet_potato
how_to_usellm_openai · confidence 0.90
- inaturalist (description.summary) — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ipomoea batatas
- wikipedia (description.summary) — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweet_potato