Sweet Potato
Related Category: Plants
trailing perennial plant (Ipomoea batatas) of the family Convolvulaceae ( family), native to the New World tropics.
Sweet Potato
Scientific Name: Ipomoea batatas (L.) Lam.
Synonym: Convolvulus batatas, Convolvulus tiliaceus, Ipomoea fastigiata, Ipomoea tiliacea, Ipomoea triloba
Family: Convolvulaceae ...
Sweet potatoes quickly spread around the tropical regions of the world and became a staple in many countries. The red and orange fleshed types are an excellent food source rich in beta carotene, the precursor to vitamin A.
Sweet Potato
Prepared by Susan James, Agricultural Assistant, Richland County; and Bob Polomski, Extension Consumer Horticulturist, Clemson University. Revised by Joey Williamson, HGIC Extension Agent, Clemson University. (New 02/00.
Sweet potatoes are native to Central and South America. While there are many varieties available for the home garden, all require approximately 100 or more growing days to mature.
Blooming: Sweet potatoes bloom in the short days of winter in the greenhouse. Being related to Morning Glories, the flowers open in the early morning and are usually closed by early afternoon.
Sweet Potato
Sweet potatoes are a long-season, tropical vegetable, so it's no surprise that they're grown mostly in southern states. However, it's possible for northern gardeners to grow these tasty, highly nutritious vegetables.
Sweet Potatoes
A tuber vegetable originating from Central America that is typically referred to as either a sweet potato or yam in the U.S.
Sweet potato vines 'Blackie' (dark red) and 'Margarita' (chartreuse) alternate creating a ribbon of color cutting through Mr. Cason's Vegetable Garden at Callaway Gardens, Georgia.
Sweet Potato - Ipomoea batatas
Sweet Potato Vine - Ipomoea batatas
Swinies - Sonchus oleraceus
Sycamore - Platnus sp.
This sweet potato vine looks best growing over the edge of a wall or creeping along the fringes of a border. When sunlight hits its lime green leaves, the effect is electric. They are a paler green in part shade.
Yams are not sweet potatoes, but are used in a fashion similar to both sweet potatoes and potatoes.
Fleshy, moist sweet potatoes, mainly from Louisiana, have been misnamed as yam.
Candied yams commonly purchased in cans for the holidays are in reality a sweet potato with the genus "Ipomea".
'Beauregard' is a sweet potato, generally ready for harvest after 90 days. Performs well in a wide range of cultural conditions and climates. This variety can yield in excess of 450 pounds per acre.
Underground tubers, large, elongated, called, in its country of origin, sweet potatoes. Leaves dark green, lustrous, cordate, 7 to 9-veined are green or reddish-purple colored along the leaf margins, petioles, and stems.
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) ...
A delicious flavour somewhat like roasted sweet potatoes, it always receives very high marks in taste trials with us[K].
Researchers would put sweet potatoes along the beach to bring the monkeys out in the open.
The tubers of Ipomaea Batatas are rich in starch and sugar, and, as the "sweet potato," form one of the most widely distributed foods in the warmer parts of the earth.
Ipomoea costata (Australian Bush Sweet Potato)
100 (150)cm, Australian Bush Sweet Potato is a woody perennial with showy deep lilac flower trumpets, leathery oval leaves and potato like storage roots.
Sweet potato sticks from some of our highly flavored Puerto Rican and Cuban yams are as palatable as carrot sticks.
They are long, sweet and fleshy, and when slow roasted are said to taste like sweet potatoes. The were used for food by the Montana and Northwest Indians.
Grown exclusively for its ornamental purple foliage, this cultivar of Sweet Potato rarely flowers.
Potato (Solanum tuberosum)
Sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas)
Related Topics
Dividing Plants
Water Plants ...
This plant has only slender tubers which, while not toxic, do not taste at all good. Nothing at all like the Yam or Sweet Potato grown in southern vegetable gardens and appearing on dinner tables.
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), ...
Since its color is from its foliage, it makes a great foil for darker leaves and flowers all season long. Burgundy foliage like sweet potato vines, coral bells and Celosia pop next to Hakonechloa macra ‘Aureola'.
Gerard, in his Herbal published in 1597, gives a figure of the Potato, under the name of 'Potato of Virginia' - to distinguish it from the Sweet Potato.
Companions: Plant alongside impatiens, begonias, ornamental grasses, small phormiums, sweet potato vine, and heliotrope.
Julie Chai
PAGE:1 ...
Burns:
Tissue injury resulting from exposure to excessive sun, heat, caustic or electricity.
Annato, Billy Goat Weed, Bitter Melon, Mango, Papaya, Sarsaparilla, Sweet Potato.
Growing tender crops such as aubergines, cucumbers, peppers and chillies and tomatoes through the summer months
Trying more exotic, heat-loving plants such as okra, melons and sweet potatoes, ...
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.
all varieties, kohlrabi, leaf lettuce, leeks, mustard greens, okra, onions, papaya, parsnips, parsley (Petroselinum crispum, grows wild on some coastal hillsides, introduced to Bermuda from the UK in 1612), peas, peppers, potatoes and sweet potatoes, ...
 See also: Potato, Green, Ipomoea, Ipomoea batatas, Vine
|
