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The sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas) is a dicotyledonous plant that belongs to the bindweed or morning glory family, Convolvulaceae. Its large, starchy, sweet-tasting tuberous roots are used as a root vegetable. [3][4] The young shoots and leaves are sometimes eaten as greens. Cultivars of the sweet potato have been bred to bear tubers with flesh ...
Ipomoea magnusiana. Ipomoea (/ ˌɪpəˈmiː.ə, - oʊ -/) [3][4] is the largest genus in the plant family Convolvulaceae, with over 600 species. It is a large and diverse group, with common names including morning glory, water convolvulus or water spinach, sweet potato, bindweed, moonflower, etc. [5] The genus occurs throughout the tropical ...
Ipomoea pandurata. Ipomoea pandurata, known as man of the earth, [1] wild potato vine, manroot, wild sweet potato, and wild rhubarb, [2] is a species of herbaceous perennial vine native to North America. It is a twining plant of woodland verges and rough places with heart-shaped leaves and funnel-shaped white flowers with a pinkish throat.
Sweet potatoes are hypothesised to have been dispersed across the Pacific by Polynesian voyagers. Pictured: reconstructed vaka moana visiting California.. The sweet potato plant (Ipomoea batatas) is originally from the Americas, and became widely cultivated in Central and South America by 2500 BC. [1]
This list of sweet potato cultivars provides some information about varieties and cultivars of sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas). The sweet potato was first domesticated in the Americas more than 5,000 years ago. [1] As of 2013, there are approximately 7,000 sweet potato cultivars. People grow sweet potato in many parts of the world, including New ...
Ipomoea mauritiana is a type of morning glory plant. Like the sweet potato, it belongs to the genus Ipomoea. It grows as a vine. Its origins are uncertain, but it has been recorded in West Africa, including in Gambia [1] and the riparian forests of Benin, [2] as well as Australia's Northern Territory. It is naturalised in many parts of the ...
Ipomoea reidelii Meisn. Ipomoea riedelii Meisn. Ipomoea teruae Molina & L.O.Williams. Ipomoea batatoides is a species of flowering plant in the family Convolvulaceae. [2] This species is found in sub- deciduous tropical forest, from about 100 to 200 meters above sea level. It blooms from August to November.
It is an herbaceous annual or perennial twining liana growing to 2–4 m (7–13 ft) tall. The leaves are spirally arranged, 3–7 cm (1–3 in) long with a 1.5–6 cm (– in) long petiole. The flowers are trumpet-shaped, 4–9 cm (2–4 in) in diameter, most commonly blue with a white to golden yellow centre. Heavenly blue, and many other ...