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Ornamental sweet potatoes are popular landscape, container, and bedding plants. Grown as an annual in zones up to USDA hardiness Zone 9, they grow rapidly and spread quickly. Cultivars are available in many colors, such as green, yellow, and purple. [141] Some ornamental varieties, like 'Blackie', flower more than others. [142]
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. [3]
The genus includes food crops; the tubers of sweet potatoes (I. batatas) and the leaves of water spinach (I. aquatica) are commercially important food items, and have been for millennia. The sweet potato is one of the Polynesian "canoe plants", transplanted by settlers on islands throughout the Pacific.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map includes 13 zones across the United States and is based on 30-year averages for the lowest winter temperature in each region.
Even though these growers called their products yams, true yams are significantly different. All sweet potatoes are variations of one species: I. batatas. Yams are any of various tropical species of the genus Dioscorea. A yam tuber is starchier, dryer, and often larger than the storage root of a sweet potato, and the skin is more coarse. [3]
Batata, the word for potato in some variants of Arabic and some Indian languages, including Gujarati, Konkani and Marathi, and Portuguese; Batata harra, a Lebanese vegetable dish; Batata vada, an Indian snack from the state of Maharashtra; Batata palha , a type of French fry in Portugal
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