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  2. Helcystogramma convolvuli - Wikipedia

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    Helcystogramma convolvuli, the sweet potato moth, sweetpotato webworm moth, sweetpotato leaf roller or black leaf folder, is a moth of the family Gelechiidae.It is mainly found in Asia and Africa, but there are also records from Oceania, the Middle East, the Caribbean [2] and Florida in the United States. [3]

  3. Bedellia somnulentella - Wikipedia

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    Bedellia somnulentella, morning-glory leaf miner, size: 4.8 mm Sweetpotato leaf with leaf miner larvae, webbing, and frass Sweet potato plant with leaf miner damage External links [ edit ]

  4. Sweet potato - Wikipedia

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    The flowers, buds, and leaves of the sweet potato, which resemble those of the morning glory Seeds. The plant is a herbaceous perennial vine, bearing alternate triangle-shaped or palmately lobed leaves and medium-sized sympetalous flowers.

  5. List of sweet potato cultivars - Wikipedia

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    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 Zealand, Australia, the Philippines, Japan, Hawaii, China, and North America. However, sweet potato is not widely cultivated ...

  6. Bedellia orchilella - Wikipedia

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    Bedellia orchilella, the Hawaiian sweet potato leaf miner, is a moth of the family Bedelliidae. It was first described by Lord Walsingham in 1907. It is endemic to the Hawaiian islands of Kauai , Oahu , Molokai , Maui and Hawaii .

  7. Ipomoea - Wikipedia

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    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.

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  9. Convolvulaceae - Wikipedia

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    The leaves and starchy, tuberous roots of some species are used as foodstuffs (e.g. sweet potato and water spinach), and the seeds are exploited for their medicinal value as purgatives. Some species contain ergoline alkaloids that are likely responsible for the use of these species as ingredients in psychedelic drugs (e.g. ololiuhqui).