Ipomoea batatas 'Ace of Spades' is similar to ‘Marguerite' in growth habit with black heart shaped leaves, and doesn't grow as fast as ‘Blackie'.
Ipomoea batatas - Sweet Potato
Convolvulaceae
Ipomoea batatas or Sweet Potato is an ancient root crop native to Tropical America. The perennial vines have been cultivated for as long as 5,000 years.
IPOMOEA BATATAS See Yams
IRRIGATION
Adventure in Avocado Growing Under Drip Irrigation. By Burton E. Fisch. 1973 YB, pp 49-66
Area News. 1989 #2, p 29
Cultural Nuggets for Would-be Apple Growers. Talk by J. Rider Reported by Melita Israel.
Ipomoea Batatas Pink frost
Family: Convolvulaceae
Ipomoea Batatas Pink frost ...
Ipomoea batatas 'Blackie' : Blackie Sweet Potato - Whole Plant
Ipomoea batatas 'Margarita' : Margarita Sweet Potato - Landscape
Ipomoea batatas 'Tricolor' : Tricolor Sweet Potato - Foliage ...
Ipomoea batatas 'Margarita'
('Margarita' sweet potato vine) (1 user review)
Hardiness Zones:
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Sweet Potato - Ipomoea batatas
Sweet Potato Vine - Ipomoea batatas
Swinies - Sonchus oleraceus
Sycamore - Platnus sp.
The sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas) is a warm-season crop that should not be planted until well after the last chance of frost in the spring. The soil temperature should be above 65 °F before planting this crop.
Batata - Ipomoea batatas
Batata de caña - Helianthus tuberosus
Beatamaria - Polygonatum odoratum
Beberu - Nectandra rodiaei
Becabunga - Veronica beccabunga
Becoquino - Borago officinalis
Bedelio - Balsamodendron africanum ...
Ipomoea batatas (Sweet Potato)
Ipomoea carnea ssp. fistulosa (Bush Morning Glory, Gloria de la Maņana)
Ipomoea horsfalliae (Princess Vine)
Ipomoea indica (Oceanblue Morning-glory)
Ipomoea leptophylla (Bush Morning-glory, Man Root) ...
Its history is difficult to trace, partly because the name potato was also used by early writers for the sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas) and for other unrelated plants. Spanish explorers are believed to have brought it in the 16th cent.
Sweet Potato (Ipomoea batatas)
Sweet Rocket (Hesperis matronalis)
Sweet Viburnum (Viburnum odoratissimum)
Sweet Violet (Viola odorata 'Royal Robe')
Sweet Violet (Viola odorata)
Sweet William (Dianthus barbatus) ...
The ornamental sweet potatos (Ipomoea batatas) are fast growing, twining vines with palmately lobed leaves. These showy forms produce a tuberous root identical in appearance to the common (green leaved) sweet potato but probably not tasty.
Plant of the Week
Sweet Potato, Yam
Latin: Ipomoea batatas
Our Thanksgiving tables offer an interesting mixture of foods and present a culinary snapshot of American history that harkens back to the first days of European settlement.
Potato (Solanum tuberosum)
Sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas)
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Other 'annuals' (i.e. plants to be treated as annuals) include copperleaf hibiscus (Hibiscus acetosella 'Coppertone' syn. 'Red Shield'), iresine (Iresine herbstii), ornamental sweet potato (purple, golden and variegated cultivars of Ipomoea batatas), ...
The sweet potato is Ipomoea batatas. Several members of this family contain ergoline-type alkaloids, similar to those found in the ergot fungus (see Poaceae). Kids have purchased morning-glory seed packets and ingested them to get high.
Sweet potato, Ipomoea batatas
Taro, Colocasia esculenta
Turmeric, Indian saffron, Curcuma domestica
Waterchestnuts, Eleocharis dulcis
Welsh onion, Allium sp.
Yacon, Smallanthus sonchifolius
Yam, Dioscorea batata ...
" The "common potatoes" of which Gerard speaks are the tubers of Ipomoea Batatas, the sweet potato, which nowadays would not in Great Britain be spoken of as common.
 See also: Ipomoea, Potato, Sweet potato, Green, India
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