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The genus Ipomoea that contains the sweet potato also includes several garden flowers called morning glories, but that term is not usually extended to I. batatas. Some cultivars of I. batatas are grown as ornamental plants under the name tuberous morning glory, and used in a horticultural context. Sweet potatoes can also be called yams in North ...
The sweet potato plant (Ipomoea batatas) is originally from the Americas, and became widely cultivated in Central and South America by 2500 BC. [1] Sweet potato is thought to have been first grown as a food crop in central Polynesia around 1000–1100 AD, with the earliest archaeological evidence being fragments recovered from a single location on Mangaia in the southern Cook Islands, carbon ...
Ipomoea transvaalensis Ipomoea setosa Ipomoea muricata Ipomoea orizabensis Ipomoea magnusiana. Ipomoea (/ ˌ ɪ p ə ˈ m iː. ə,-oʊ-/) [3] [4] is the largest genus in the plant family Convolvulaceae, with over 600 species.
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]
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.
Ipomoea corymbosa (L.) Roth – heart-leaved morning glory; Ipomoea coscinosperma Hochst. ex Choisy; Ipomoea costata F.Muell. ex Benth. – rock morning glory, bush potato; Ipomoea costellata Torr. – crest-ribbed morning glory; Ipomoea crassipes Hook. Ipomoea crepidiformis Hallier f. Ipomoea crinicalyx S.Moore; Ipomoea crispa (Thunb.) Hallier f.
In fact, most of what’s sold as wasabi to U.S. sushi eaters is a horseradish-based substitute, Maas said. Jeff Roller, who runs Half Moon Bay Wasabi some 30 miles south of San Francisco, agreed ...
Download QR code; Print/export Download as PDF; ... Ipomoea batatas or sweet potato; Merremia tuberosa or Spanish arborvine This page was last edited on 20 ...