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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.
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 ]
Alternaria leaf spot and stem blight Alternaria spp. Alternaria storage rot Alternaria spp. Black rot Ceratocystis fimbriata Chalara sp. [anamorph] Blue mold rot Penicillium spp. Cercospora leaf spot Cercospora spp. Phaeoisariopsis bataticola = Cercospora bataticola, C. batatas, C. ipomoeae. Charcoal rot Macrophomina phaseolina: Chlorotic leaf ...
Sweet potato leaf curl virus is commonly transmitted from insect to plant by whiteflies (Bemisia tabaci). [ 5 ] [ 4 ] Additionally, it can be transmitted from plant to plant via vegetative propagation , grafting , or the seeds. [ 4 ]
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 ...
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 and subtropical regions of the world, and comprises annual and perennial herbaceous plants, lianas, shrubs, and small trees; most of the species are ...
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]
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).