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2. Sweet potato - Wikipedia

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   The sweet potato or sweetpotato (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.

3. List of sweet potato cultivars - Wikipedia

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   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 ...

4. 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.

5. A Stroll Through the Garden: The ins and outs of harvesting ...

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6. Tuber - Wikipedia

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   Plants with tuberous roots include the sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas), cassava, dahlia, and Sagittaria (arrowhead) species. [citation needed] Root tubers are perennating organs, thickened roots that store nutrients over periods when the plant cannot actively grow, thus permitting survival from one year to the next.

7. Tuberous morning glory - Wikipedia

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   Ipomoea batatas or sweet potato; Merremia tuberosa or Spanish arborvine This page was last edited on 20 December 2015, at 22:45 (UTC). Text is available under the ...